Australian Geographic – July-August 2019

July. August 57

Spacecra

communicators in Mission

Control at Houston, Texas,

kept in contact with the

Apollo 11 astronauts during

their lunar landing mission

on 20 July 1969 EDT*.

From le­ to right are

astronauts Charles M. Duke

Jr, James A. Lovell Jr, and

Fred W. Halse Jr.

*EDT: Eastern Daylight

Time USA

On 16 July 1969 the huge 111m-tall

Saturn V rocket launched on the Apollo 11

mission from Pad A, Launch Complex 39,

Kennedy Space Center,at 9.32am EDT.

Tom Reid (seated centre) talks to his deputy,

Mike Dinn, in Honeysuckle Creek’s Operations

Control Room. To Tom’s right are Ken Lee and John Saxon

(standing) and to his le­, Ian Grant.

PHOTO CREDITS, FROM TOP: IMAGE COURTESY NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA, NAA: A12111, 1/1969/16/558; NASA