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How Australia saved the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing! But if not for the critical role played by the Australian space tracking teams at Honeysuckle Creek (just outside of Canberra) and Parkes NSW, some 600 million people across the planet would never have seen Neil Armstrong take those first steps on the ...

By U.S. Embassy in Canberra | 1 April, 2019 | Topics: News, Science & Tech | Tags: NASA, Space

Journey to Mars: DSS36 ushers in new era of U.S.-Australia space collaboration

– November 3, 2016 – Australia and the United States have taken a major step forward in the Journey to Mars today with the launch of a new 34-meter antenna dish at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) at Tidbinbilla. The completion of Deep Space Station 36 (DSS36) comes just two years after the launch of ...

By U.S. Embassy in Canberra | 3 November, 2016 | Topics: News, Science & Tech | Tags: Charge d'Affaires James Carouso, NASA, Science, Space

Speech: Inauguration of New Space Antennae Canberra Deep Space Communications Centre, Canberra

By Chargé d’Affaires James Carouso – (As prepared for delivery – November 3, 2016) As a boy growing up in New York, I, like millions of Americans and people all over the world, watched the moon landing live on television. What I did not know in 1969, and I suspect few outside Australia knew, is that those ...

By U.S. Embassy in Canberra | 3 November, 2016 | Topics: Science & Tech, Speeches | Tags: Charge d'Affaires James Carouso, NASA, Science, Space

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