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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 David M. Harland Amazon Price: $26.96 Customer Review: Three series of robotic spacecraft truly did pave the way for Apollo. Ranger gave us a close-up look at the lunar surface and showed that, on scales of a few tens of meters or less, craters densities didn't vary a great deal from place to place. It...  by Donald A. Beattie Amazon Price: $24.00 Customer Review: While much has been written about the Apollo missions to the Moon, most of these books have focused on either the spacecraft the got us to the Moon (Moon Lander or Stages to Saturn) or the astronauts (autobiographies by Collins, Cernan, Aldrin) and t...  by Hamish Lindsay Amazon Price: Customer Review: I have read numerous books regarding the space program and just when you think that there can't be anything new to learn along comes a good book. Tracking Apollo to the Moon is that book. It not only gives you insight into how those signals travelled...  Amazon Price: $53.72  by World Spaceflight News Amazon Price: $29.95 Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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