Picture
by Hamish Lindsay
Picture
by Hamish Lindsay
The station was part of NASA's Manned Spaceflight Network (MSFN) built in 1965/66 and opened in early 1967. It was built as one of three 26M antenna sites (the others were in California and Spain) specifically to support the Lunar phases of the Apollo missions to the moon. After Apollo the station went on to support Skylab and then Deep space missions before finally closing it's doors in 1981. The Antenna was moved to the nearby Deep Space station at Tidbinbilla CDSCC where it is still in use today. During it's short history, Honeysuckle supported many missions with distinction, including relaying Neil Armstrong's first steps on the lunar surface on 21st July 1969 (local date). A whole bunch of old pictures are posted here.
There is also a large (601 Kb)
after- Apollo picture (Click the thumbnail for the full sized version, annotated
with most names)
It's proving to be quite difficult to reconstruct
who worked at the station and their current contact information -
not surprising after 30 years. But I feel that this important
information will be lost unless we make the effort to reconstruct
it now. A contact database listing can be seen here.
NOTE: To avoid search engines indexing the list - you will need a logon name and
password - if you don't have these please Email
me or Bryan Sullivan . We would be most grateful for
more names, contact information and corrections.
Note: You can also download a much smaller compressed listing by clicking
here
If you worked at HSK and you are not already on the E-mailing list - why not join it by visiting http://www.tip.net.au/mailman/listinfo/honeysuckle and keep up with the old crowd?