Carnarvon Space & Technology Museum

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 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 the other several 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.

See Roles of NASA and OTC stations points 6 and 8.