Notes from the field

With a legal and political background, writing about how Canberra’s Honeysuckle Creek tracking station brought live TV pictures of Neil Armstrong’s first step on the Moon to a global audience wasn’t easy for Andrew Tink. (Andrew’s a former shadow attorney-general and shadow leader of the NSW Parliament.)

“The technical aspects seemed daunting. But I’d come to know a little of Honeysuckle’s story and that of its director, Tom Reid,, which placed all the action at the Parkes radio telescope, I became sufficiently fired up to tell what really happened,” says Andrew, explaining the genesis of his book .