Honeysuckle Creek
The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong's First Step

Andrew Tink (Author)

9781742236087

Paperback / softback, published 30 October 2018

272 pages
23.3 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.379 kg

Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Neil Armstrong took his first step.

Part biography and part personal history, this book makes a significant contribution to Australia’s role in space exploration and reveals a story little known until now.

As Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr, the director of flight operations for Apollo 11, acknowledged: ‘The name Honeysuckle Creek and the excellence which is implied by that name will always be remembered and recorded in the annals of manned space flight’.