Location: Apollo Road, Namadgi National Park,
Country: Ngunnawal
LGA: Australian Capital Territory
Region: Southern Tablelands
Website: http://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/honeysuckle-creek
Map below
The name of Honeysuckle Creek and the excellence implied by that name will always be remembered and recorded in the annals of manned space travel.
Christopher C. Kraft, Jnr, Director, NASA JSC, Houston, Texas
Wikipedia: The Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station was a NASA Earth station in Australia near Canberra. It was instrumental to the Apollo program. The station was opened in 1967 and closed in 1981.>>
Please see Colin Mackellar’s definitive Honeysuckle Creek tribute website for more on this and other Australian tracking stations, and the people who worked at them.
Scarlet does Honeysuckle Creek, a reflection on Honeysuckle Creek by Merrill Findlay after her first visit to the site in 2016.
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How to get to Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory
Post published 9 February 2025. Last updated 12 May 2025.