Tracking Apollo 11 - How The Moon Landing Video Was Received

Original trackers from the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station near Canberra in Australia talk about the challenges involved in receiving and broadcasting Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 moon walk video and telemetry. Hear amazing stories about what happened on the day 50 years ago from those who made it possible for 650 million people to see the Apollo 11 moon walk video.
The Honeysuckle Creek tracking station was the one that received and broadcast Neil Armstrong's first steps.
The Australian National Museum July 19th 2019
Panelists
John Saxon - Honeysuckle Creek Operations Supervisor
Mike Dinn - Honeysuckle Creek Deputy Director
Brian Sullivan - Honeysuckle Creek computer technician and programmer.
Gillian Schoenborn - Honeysuckle Creek Communication Technician
Andrew Tink - Author of the book Honeysuckle Creek is the panel host.
Also hear from Dr Andy Thomas, Australian born astronaut with 3 space flights and 177 days in space.
#MoonLanding #Apollo50th #NeilArmstrong

[@rfengr00]

Flickering from the podium is driving me nuts. Do they PWM they screen brightness? There shouldn’t be any re-scan in the pixels, and it doesn’t flicker in the video of the video.

[@stevec00ps]

And what about the fingerprints!

[@Bbaass_TMH]

I'm assuming it's a cheap LED driver (halfwave rectification maybe) for lighting up the front of the stand in combination with the camera shutterspeed. Likely wasn't any noticable flicker to the naked eye.

[@lmiddleman]

They forgot to acknowledge the cheese, traditional component of the moon!

[@LightSoySauce]

Another great video, thanks Dave.

[@richardkijak7430]

My Grandad (Kaz Kijak) was working at Honeysuckle Creek at the time. Words can't describe just how proud we all are of his involvement.

[@EEVblog]

Awesome! I had a blast talking to all the originals trackers, it was a huge event.

[@3800S1]

awesome stuff.

[@theharbingerofconflation]

I wish she’d just casually go „Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi, Oi, Oi!“ in her opening statement.

[@StreuB1]

CDSCC is still to this day one of the most important and absolutely critical tracking and communications stations for NASA. Every flight that goes to space, relays through Canberra's network of which HCTS is[was] a part of. The Australians play a critical role in spaceflight.

[@WacKEDmaN]

..if you watched the voyager vids on this channel you'd already know that!

[@StreuB1]

@@WacKEDmaN I didn't even watch this video, I only commented. I've known about CDSCC and its role for decades.

[@EEVblog]

Indeed.

[@WacKEDmaN]

cool vid...thanks Dave

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

I have to go bedy byes now so I will watch it tomorrow OK.

[@stevec00ps]

Good video - cheers Dave :)

[@eswing2153]

My guess is gummy bears are imperative.

[@SimonCoates]

Is Stephanie related to Dave? Same blocked sinuses and gargling throat 😄

[@MrTripcore]

Good camera work

[@kissingfrogs]

So the moon remains static, I did not know that.

[@EEVblog]

IIRC he said relatively static or something like that, and from a tracking point of view he's right. Contrast with earth orbit tracking which a whole different world, the slew rates are crazy.

[@resonantconsciousness9248]

Funny you use the word "static" as that's what causes the craters on the moon.

[@IvoTrausch]

I think comparing the moon orbiting, which is one month obviously, to earth's rotation, you can consider it to be relatively static.

[@MrLunithy]

@@IvoTrausch relative is the operative word.

[@resonantconsciousness9248]

Static electricity

[@88njtrigg88]

0:12 ??

[@EEVblog]

It's common in Australia to acknowledge at formal events like this the original aboriginal land you are on. Often there will even be a local "welcome to country" from an aboriginal elder.

[@Okurka.]

PC at its finest.

[@88njtrigg88]

@@Okurka. gotta keep in sweet with KZbin.

[@BobHolowenko]

Same placation happens here in Canada. It's difficult because many groups seem to disagree who has traditional claim to the land.

[@resonantconsciousness9248]

Nothing that a analogue delay circuit couldn't do.

[@MrLunithy]

How many relative to what?

[@eswing2153]

MrLunithy my guess is the control circuit isn’t so clear here.

[@macdonalds1972]

Boomers.

[@ralphmalone8337]

driven by prior gens

[@Okurka.]

I love science fiction.

[@MrLunithy]

Nah it's all been ruined Star Trek... Star Wars.... Doctor Who... don't know what you're watching.

[@gowdsake7103]

Do you like being an ignorant pillock too ?