Born: Established: 1953 ;
Gender:
Male
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Most Referenced Works
Awards for Works
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Honeysuckle Creek : The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong's First Step
Sydney
:
NewSouth Publishing
,
2018
17116334
2018
single work
biography
'Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Neil Armstrong took his first step.
'Part biography and part personal history, this book makes a significant contribution to Australia’s role in space exploration and reveals a story little known until now.
'As Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr, the director of flight operations for Apollo 11, acknowledged: ‘The name Honeysuckle Creek and the excellence which is implied by that name will always be remembered and recorded in the annals of manned space flight’.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2019 longlisted Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature
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William Charles Wentworth : Australia's Greatest Native Son
Crows Nest
:
Allen and Unwin
,
2009
Z1610493
2009
single work
biography
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