Carnarvon Space & Technology Museum
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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 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. | + | 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 Carnarvon Tracking Station]] (in town to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first Moon walk), ex [[OTC Satellite Earth Station (Carnarvon)]] members and local citizens. It soon lapsed as a working museum and from a lack of care and security, the loss of several historic items folowed. |
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| - | 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 | + | Now, in 2012, a team of local citizens have acquired the temporary use of the old reccreation unit to re-establish the Space Museum. It is expected tha Shire Council will make the OTC administrative and logistics buildings available, early in 2013, to establish a more extensive permanent museum facility telling the full story of Carnarvon’s two 'space' stations and their distinct roles in space and communications. See [[Roles of NASA and OTC stations]] for a brief comparison. |
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| + | The temporary museum will be established in time for Carnarvon's '''Moon and Back Festival'''. It will be opened on 22 to 23 June by '''Astronaut Buzz Aldrin''', the second astronaut to step on the Moon. It is intended that a full range of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo equipment will be ultimately on display after the transfer of Muchea/Coastal-Sentry memorabilia no longer featuring as part of Melville's 'Wireless Hill Museum'. | ||
| - | 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 correction as follows: | ||
| - | “…the first satellite earth station in Australia… “ is correct; | + | ''''' http://www.carnarvonmuseum.org.au''''' |
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| - | “... the first satellite TV transmission received in Australia …” should read “…the first satellite TV transmission transmitted from Australia …”; | + | |
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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 relayed to Western Australia and became the first live TV images received from outside WA; transfered through a geosynchronous communications satellite over the Pacific Ocean, down to the Carnarvon OTC Earth Satation 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 Carnarvon Tracking Station (in town to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first Moon walk), ex OTC Satellite Earth Station (Carnarvon) members and local citizens. It soon lapsed as a working museum and from a lack of care and security, the loss of several historic items folowed.
Now, in 2012, a team of local citizens have acquired the temporary use of the old reccreation unit to re-establish the Space Museum. It is expected tha Shire Council will make the OTC administrative and logistics buildings available, early in 2013, to establish a more extensive permanent museum facility telling the full story of Carnarvon’s two 'space' stations and their distinct roles in space and communications. See Roles of NASA and OTC stations for a brief comparison.
The temporary museum will be established in time for Carnarvon's Moon and Back Festival. It will be opened on 22 to 23 June by Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to step on the Moon. It is intended that a full range of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo equipment will be ultimately on display after the transfer of Muchea/Coastal-Sentry memorabilia no longer featuring as part of Melville's 'Wireless Hill Museum'.
