posted 12-12-2018 09:19 AM               

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 serious contribution to Australia's role in space exploration and reveals a story unknown 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."

• Paperback: 272 pages
  
• University of New South Wales Press (February 1, 2019)
  
• ISBN-10: 1742236081
  
• ISBN-13: 978-1742236087