Carnarvon Space & Technology Museum
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| One section of that report confuses the roles played by the Carnarvon OTC Earth Station with that of other NASA Space Tracking Stations. | One section of that report confuses the roles played by the Carnarvon OTC Earth Station with that of other NASA Space Tracking Stations. | ||
| - | The statement ''“The site history boasts a number of firsts - the first satellite earth station in Australia, the first satellite TV transmission received in Australia, and the first point on earth to receive a transmission signal from the first NASA moon landing.”'' needs ammending as follows: | + | The statement ''“The site history boasts a number of firsts - the first satellite earth station in Australia, the first satellite TV transmission received in Australia, and the first point on earth to receive a transmission signal from the first NASA moon landing.”'' needs ammending. |
| - | ''“... the first satellite TV transmission received in Australia …”'' should read ''“…the first satellite TV transmission '''transmitted from''' Australia …”''; | + | See [[Roles of NASA and OTC Stations]] |
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| - | and ''“… the first point on earth to receive a transmission signal from the first NASA moon landing …”'' confuses how OTC was able to receive TV transmissions from the Moon when it couldn’t even see it at the time. | + | |
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| - | The first seven minutes of TV showing Neil Armstrong’s walk on the Moon were received directly by NASA’s Honeysuckle Creek Space Tracking Station and thereafter by the giant Parkes Radio Telescope. '''These signals were merely relayed to Western Australia''' but nevertheless '''became the first live TV images received from outside WA'''. They were relayed through a Pacific Ocean geosynchronous communications satellite , down to the [[Carnarvon OTC Earth Station]] and then along a co-axial cable to Perth for transmission on local TV. | + | |
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The original museum was set up in the cramped circular base of the 32m OTC dish in 1989. It was officially opened by Wilson Tuckey in front of a crowd of ex-Trackers from NASA’s Carnarvon Space Tracking Station (in town to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first Moon walk), ex Carnarvon OTC Earth Station members and local citizens.
Now the Shire and local citizens have acquired the OTC administrative and logistics buildings and plan to set up an extended museum facility to tell the full story of Carnarvon’s two stations and their role in space and communications
The Shire reports progress: http://www.carnarvon.wa.gov.au/projects/otc
One section of that report confuses the roles played by the Carnarvon OTC Earth Station with that of other NASA Space Tracking Stations.
The statement “The site history boasts a number of firsts - the first satellite earth station in Australia, the first satellite TV transmission received in Australia, and the first point on earth to receive a transmission signal from the first NASA moon landing.” needs ammending.
