How Good Is Your History?

[Tazio]

Nope.

ooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh angry!!!!!!

[Lousada]

This is not going anywhere, so here is the answer. Both of them were once proclaimed king of England, and were the effective rulers, yet they were never actually crowned. So technically they were never actual kings.

[Camelopard]

It's been about 6 weeks since this topic moved so I beg the indulgence of all posters to ask a question.

The man on the moon walk was been in the news lately, celebrating 40 years of the occurence of the uttering of those famous words, "one small step..... and so on', anyway my question if I am allowed is:

Where were the pictures and audio received from the moon (providing of course it wasn't a stunt performed in the desert of New Mexico), ie what tracking station provided the link to Houston? Closest city will probably be accepted..........

[chuck34]

It's been about 6 weeks since this topic moved so I beg the indulgence of all posters to ask a question.

The man on the moon walk was been in the news lately, celebrating 40 years of the occurence of the uttering of those famous words, "one small step..... and so on', anyway my question if I am allowed is:

Where were the pictures and audio received from the moon (providing of course it wasn't a stunt performed in the desert of New Mexico), ie what tracking station provided the link to Houston? Closest city will probably be accepted..........

Without thinking about it too hard. I think it was in the Pacific. The Phillipenes?

[jim mcglinchey]

I think that this refers to the Sam Neil movie The Dish....am I getting warm?

[Mark in Oshawa]

It was the tracking station in Australia in Victoria

[chuck34]

I just remembered, Scout's honor I didn't go and look it up.

It was in Guam.

I remember reading a story on the guy that was like 9 or 10 then, who's father worked at the tracking station. There was some sort of dish that was stuck, bad bearing. In order to rebuild the bearing it would have been like a 10 hour job. No good, landing over. But this kid could reach inside and grease the thing up. That was good enough to get teh dish working again. So on went the landing.

At least I think that's right.

[Camelopard]

The Pacific yes, but not The Philippines.

[Rollo]

I think that this refers to the Sam Neil movie The Dish....am I getting warm?

Very warm.

The signals from the moon landing as they landed were picked up by Goldstone Deep Space station in the Mojave Desert, a better feed was picked up at Honeysuckle Creek, and then the worldwide broadcast was taken from Parkes radio telescope.

The Dish and Moonshot are the two best films with regards this.

[Camelopard]

Very warm.

The signals from the moon landing as they landed were picked up by Goldstone Deep Space station in the Mojave Desert, a better feed was picked up at Honeysuckle Creek, and then the worldwide broadcast was taken from Parkes radio telescope.

The Dish and Moonshot are the two best films with regards this.

The first eight minutes were from Honeysuckle Creek near Canberra, well there you go I always thought it was Tidbinbilla also close to Canberra!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...21/2631897.htm


"But many remain unaware of the significant role played by Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra.
"The role of Honeysuckle Creek is one of the unsung stories of the moon landing," astronomer-in-charge of Anglo-Australian Observatory Dr Fred Watson told ABC News Online.
"Honeysuckle Creek has been neglected in history."
Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, along with another main telescope in Goldstone, California, beamed the first eight minutes of Armstrong's historic moon steps to the world on July 21, 1969 and, with its antenna, also kept a watchful eye on the spacecraft for the entire mission."


Next question Rollo!