November 2018’s club lecture, Honeysuckle Creek, is now available for viewing on YouTube.
The lecture is given by Andrew Tink AM, who previews his upcoming book, Honeysuckle Creek: the Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong’s First Step.
Honeysuckle Creek tracking station, with its 26 metre dish (now decommissioned), is most famous for being the station which received and relayed to the world the first historic TV images of astronaut Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon on 21 July 1969.
About Andrew Tink (via Wikipedia):
Andrew Arnold Tink AM (born 13 July 1953) is a former Australian politician, having served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Liberal Party from 1988 to 2007. He was in the shadow cabinet from 1995 until March 2006. He has written two political biographies, a third book on the events and political consequences of a fatal plane crash, a fourth on Australian history, culture and society in the 20th century and a fifth on the involvement of Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in the first moon landing. Since leaving politics, Tink has been appointed a visiting fellow and adjunct professor at Macquarie University, as a trustee of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales(Sydney Living Museums) and President of the Library Council of New South Wales. He is an honorary Doctor of Letters honoris causa from Macquarie University.
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