Cirrus@Austlit

'Tom Reid was the Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Honeysuckle Creek tracking station near Canberra during a momentous time in history: when humans first set foot on another celestial body, in the Apollo 11 crewed mission to the Moon. The fiftieth anniversary of this event was celebrated worldwide in July 2019, and Andrew Tink's biography was clearly timed to meet this market. It is also a welcome addition to the very small number of books covering Australian space history, of which the most prominent are Peter Morton's meticulous history of Woomera, Fire Across the Desert (1989) and Kerrie Dougherty's Australia in Space (2017). With the establishment of the Australian Space Agency in 2018, there is a renewed interest in Australia's largely overlooked role in global space exploration.' (Introduction)