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NASA has upgraded the Australian facility housing antennae that captured signals from the first Moon landing and still helps to track the Voyager missions. The Tidbinbilla Deep Space Tracking Station already houses Deep Space Stations (DSS) 34, 43, 45 and DSS 46. The latter is a 26 metre antenna that received the first video …

  1. Martin Budden Silver badge
    Thumb Up

    THANK YOU for getting the correct location for where the signals from the first Moon landing were received!

  2. William Donelson

    There was a great movie "The Dish" about this facility and the first moon landing.

    1. Martin Budden Silver badge
      FAIL

      No, there was an awful made-up load of claptrap called "The Dish" about a completely different facility hundreds of kilometres away in Parkes which *didn't* relay the first images of the first moon landing.

      1. Simon Harris

        CSIRO have a nice article about what actually happened here - it focuses on Parkes, but includes some information about Honeysuckle Creek too:

        http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/

        Honeysuckle Creek's images were the first to be used, but the feed was switched over to use Parkes' output after a few minutes as the image quality from there was better.

  3. Martin Budden Silver badge
    Paris Hilton

    which bird?

    I think it's a crow. Not a magpie (their beaks are light grey), not a currawong (their eyes are yellow).

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Pint

    thank you

    For providing a description of the related picture.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Alien

    Aaaahhhhhh!!!!

    The aliens obviously don't want us intruding on their hegemony in outer space, and they have sent some giant space-magpie to destroy us puny humans!!

  6. Winkypop Silver badge

    I for one...

    Bow down to the giant space-magpie, our new over lord!

  7. TRT Silver badge

    Wow!

    They've upgraded by adding an extra 't' into the name?

  8. Graham Cunningham

    Science

    "who prefer their science to feature in new and improved shampoos" - Awesome!

  9. AndrueC Silver badge
    Joke

    "Does my beak look big in this?"

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