Andrew Tink

Honeysuckle Creek (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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: "e;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."e;

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of New South Wales Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781742244297
• Artikelnr.: 54915938

Autorenporträt

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