Moon landing 50th anniversary: a joint initiative with CSIRO

By Helen Sim
June 7 2019 - 7:00am
ATTENTION: CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope around the time of the 1969 Moon landing. A change of plan meant the Australian stations became the primary point of contact for the moonwalk. Picture: CSIRO
ATTENTION: CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope around the time of the 1969 Moon landing. A change of plan meant the Australian stations became the primary point of contact for the moonwalk. Picture: CSIRO

The tracking stations needed to keep in touch with the command module orbiting the Moon, the lunar module going down to the surface, and then the astronauts as they roamed outside.