By Jackie French,Bryan Sullivan
ISBN-10: 0730491323
ISBN-13: 9780730491323
Who are the Honeysuckle Creek mob? and the way did they help the 1st moon touchdown? whilst guy took step one at the moon it was once a host of Australian technicians who tracked the spacecraft and despatched the 1st tv images to the realm. No, no longer at Parkes - the motion picture The Dish bought it fallacious. They have been from Honeysuckle Creek within the ACT. this can be their story, advised through Bryan Sullivan, one of many technicians on accountability on the time, and his wife, children′s writer Jackie French. This publication additionally comprises information regarding the gap software and the beginning of the internet, in addition to offering the solutions to questions corresponding to: How do you visit the bathroom in a spacecraft? Have the astronauts ever obvious an alien? What made the moon? am i able to have a vacation in house? a long time 10-14
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I usually dozed as the car carried me through the tiny village of Tharwa and up the narrow mountain roads, and then wake up as the car paused at the security gate. Beyond the darkness you could see the brilliant white dish, with the roos grazing under the floodlights. Every time I walked across the carpark in the cold night air I wondered what had happened since my last shift, anxious to talk with my now weary colleagues about the current mission’s progress. Inside the tracking station the lights were dazzling after the quiet darkness, and although there was always an incredible amount of activity, there was total concentration on the tasks at hand, with everyone high on caffeine.
Tidbinbilla was a shock adjustment for me after working in industrial Sydney. The tracking station was surrounded by grassed hills and paddocks, with kangaroos resting in the shade of the antenna during the day. Tidbinbilla station during the Apollo days when it had two antennas. HAMISH LINDSAY All NASA space-tracking stations were located in remote areas to reduce electrical interference from traffic, radio and television signals and industrial machinery. Because signals from distant spacecraft were usually weak, the antenna-receiving equipment had to be extremely sensitive—any type of electrical interference would disrupt the signals.
The only way to learn about computers in the early ‘60s was to join a computer company. The world’s first business computer was the LEO (Lyons Electronic Office). The original British LEO 1 computer was made as an accounting machine for the Lyons Tea Shops in London. I joined LEO Computer Ltd (Aust) and worked with the LEO 3 model. Anyone who knew anything about computers in those days was called a ‘boffin’. I had at last become one of them, with my thick black-rimmed glasses and white dust coat.