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Today, when we remember the Apollo moon program, we think of the astronauts and spacecraft. However, none of it would have been possible without tracking and communications with Earth. The video of Neil Armstrong's first step came to the world via the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station. This site is an ongoing work by Colin Mackellar as a tribute to the pioneering work of all who were involved with NASA's Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station. With a large number of videos (some of them found nowhere else), interviews with station staff from the period, government documents and newspaper clippings, this site is an extraordinary record of an exciting piece of space history. Well worth a visit. (ME) From This is True for 23 August 2009 Suggestions for further reading:
 by Courtney Brooks, James Grimwood, Loyd swenson Amazon Price: Customer Review: Formatting is bad. No photos..., but they give you captions! Talk about salt in the wound! Save your money toward buying the REAL book in print.  by James K. Wheaton Amazon Price:  by T.A. Heppenheimer, NASA Amazon Price: Customer Review: The information is interesting but the poor formatting makes for a joyless read. I hadn't realized that this book is available for free at history.nasa.gov, where it is better formatted, properly organized, and actually includes the illu...  by Brian Lawrenson Amazon Price:  by Donald A. Beattie Amazon Price: $38.40 Customer Review: "Taking Science to the Moon: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program" by Donald A. Beattie is an excellent account of efforts by NASA scientists to do more to include science payloads on Apollo missions in the 1960s despite opposition from mission e... Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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