AustLit
585459012519255814.jpg
Honeysuckle Creek : The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong's First Step
single work
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
'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’.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
[Review] Honeysuckle Creek. The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish, and Neil Armstrong’s First Step
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , November vol. 50 no. 4 2019; (p. 548-549)
— Review of Honeysuckle Creek : The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong's First Step 2018 single work biography'Tom Reid was the Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Honeysuckle Creek tracking station near Canberra during a momentous time in history: when humans first set foot on another celestial body, in the Apollo 11 crewed mission to the Moon. The fiftieth anniversary of this event was celebrated worldwide in July 2019, and Andrew Tink's biography was clearly timed to meet this market. It is also a welcome addition to the very small number of books covering Australian space history, of which the most prominent are Peter Morton's meticulous history of Woomera, Fire Across the Desert (1989) and Kerrie Dougherty's Australia in Space (2017). With the establishment of the Australian Space Agency in 2018, there is a renewed interest in Australia's largely overlooked role in global space exploration.' (Introduction)
-
[Review] Honeysuckle Creek. The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish, and Neil Armstrong’s First Step
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , November vol. 50 no. 4 2019; (p. 548-549)
— Review of Honeysuckle Creek : The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong's First Step 2018 single work biography'Tom Reid was the Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Honeysuckle Creek tracking station near Canberra during a momentous time in history: when humans first set foot on another celestial body, in the Apollo 11 crewed mission to the Moon. The fiftieth anniversary of this event was celebrated worldwide in July 2019, and Andrew Tink's biography was clearly timed to meet this market. It is also a welcome addition to the very small number of books covering Australian space history, of which the most prominent are Peter Morton's meticulous history of Woomera, Fire Across the Desert (1989) and Kerrie Dougherty's Australia in Space (2017). With the establishment of the Australian Space Agency in 2018, there is a renewed interest in Australia's largely overlooked role in global space exploration.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2019 longlisted Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature
