Honeysuckle Creek The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong's First Step

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. As 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.”

Andrew Tink is an author and adjunct professor at Macquarie University. His biography William Charles Wentworth won The Nib award for literature in 2010.