Och, Tommy! -- Keep your chin up -- Senior service brand -- Lieutenant sparks -- Woomera -- Sputnik and Kaputnik -- Before this decade is out -- Academic interlude -- Castles in the air -- At first sight -- A moon made of cheese? -- A hard man -- Santa Claus -- The mop handle -- The upside-down camera -- Like flies to a picnic lunch -- The Eagle has landed -- A prime minister 'blinded by science' -- God damn it : we were ready!
Summary:
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'
