Tracking Apollo 11 - How The Moon Landing Video Was Received

Original trackers from the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station near Canberra in Australia talk about the challenges involved in receiving and broadcasting Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 moon walk video and telemetry. Hear amazing stories about what happened on the day 50 years ago from those who made it possible for 650 million people to see the Apollo 11 moon walk video.
The Honeysuckle Creek tracking station was the one that received and broadcast Neil Armstrong's first steps.

The Australian National Museum July 19th 2019

Panelists

John Saxon - Honeysuckle Creek Operations Supervisor
Mike Dinn - Honeysuckle Creek Deputy Director
Brian Sullivan - Honeysuckle Creek computer technician and programmer.
Gillian Schoenborn - Honeysuckle Creek Communication Technician
Andrew Tink - Author of the book Honeysuckle Creek is the panel host.
Also hear from Dr Andy Thomas, Australian born astronaut with 3 space flights and 177 days in space.

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