Buzz among the kangaroos.
Adapted by Colin Mackellar from an idea by Mike Linney and Tony Pelling.

Hamish Lindsay’s famous photo of kangaroos at Honeysuckle Creek.

Hamish Lindsay’s photo of many of the Honeysuckle Creek team after Apollo 11. See names and other photos here.

The Wing at Tidbinbilla. Names on this page.

OTC Technician Wayne Ozarko helped install the equipment at Sydney Video prior to Apollo 11.

AWA Technician Tom Lysaght at the Receiver/Exciters at Carnarvon USB during Apollo 8.

PMG technician Ken Reid tests NASA voice, telemetry and computer data circuits at the City West Telephone Exchange in Melbourne prior to Apollo 11. PMG photo via the Lloyd Bott collection. Scan by Ken Sheridan.

Part of the team who supported Apollo 12 at Parkes, standing in the shadow of the dish – November 1969.

Bruce Window led a team from Tidbinbilla to support Apollo 12 using the Parkes Radio Telescope. The Tidbinbilla people were all contractors of SpaceTrack Pty Ltd.

Left to Right:

1. Roy Stewart (Engineer in Charge of SpaceTrack staff)
2. Harry Westwood (Recorder/Instrumentation Senior Technician, SpaceTrack P/L)
3. Dennis Gill, CSIRO
4. John Shimmins, CSIRO
5. Peter O'Donoghue sitting on Tidbinbilla car bonnet.
6. David Cooke CSIRO
7. Jack Dickinson (RF Senior Technician, SpaceTrack P/L)
8. ?? CSIRO
9. ?? CSIRO
10. William Reytar, NASA Goddard.
11. Dr John Bolton CSIRO, Director of Parkes.

On the left, note the recently-completed concrete ‘jacket’ – added between Apollos 11 and 12 – to strengthen the Parkes structure. During the wind storm which hit as the Apollo 11 EVA began, there had been real fears for the integrity of the 1000 tonne radio telescope.

Transparency by Bruce Window. 
2020 re-scan by Colin Mackellar.
Image repair and colour-restoration by Glen Nagle.

Kevyn Westbrook is seen standing on the right in this photo taken at NASCOM’s Deakin Switching Centre in the 1970s.

Photo: Hamish Lindsay.

And a bonus image:

Mike Linney drew this cartoon of Honeysuckle Creek in 1966.

It was modelled after the popular ‘Ettamogah Pub’ cartoons by Ken Maynard in The Australasian Post magazine.

Many Honeysuckle staff and visitors, including several Apollo astronauts, signed it – up until the end of the lunar landing missions in 1972.