Who Put The Moon There?

[brian ross]

What most people don't realise is that the pictures from Apollo 11's moonlanding were received and retransmitted by an Australian radio telescope at Parkes in New South Wales.

Moon landing's 'Dish' telescope still transmitting from Australia

All this was dramatised in 2000 by the movie "The Dish". I would heartily recommend it to anyone with an interest in the landing. It is a gentle Australian comedy about events in and around the radio telescope leading up to and on the day of the landing.

[Neferti]

Live video of NASA's Apollo 11 reached the world thanks to one little dish outside Canberra

On a wet and cold morning 50 years ago, Kevin Gallegos got in a car with three colleagues and drove from his home in Torrens in Canberra to work.

The Brindabella Mountains were dusted with sleet showers as they travelled the 30 kilometres towards Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, south-west of the nation's capital.

It was a typical freezing mid-winter morning in the ACT, but this was not going to be a typical work day for Mr Gallegos.

Four hours into his shift as a radio technician he would be part of history, playing a pivotal role helping Neil Armstrong step onto the Moon and getting those unforgettable images of NASA's Apollo 11 mission back to Earth.

Around lunchtime in Australia on July 21, 1969 as Mr Armstrong uttered the immortal words, "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind", it was Mr Gallegos behind the controls helping to transmit some of the most-watched images in human history.

Honeysuckle Creek was one of three tracking stations built by NASA around the world specifically for the Apollo manned Moon mission.

The others were in Madrid in Spain and Goldstone in California.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-19/ ... k/11273724

[Bobby]

What most people don't realise is that the pictures from Apollo 11's moonlanding were received and retransmitted by an Australian radio telescope at Parkes in New South Wales.

Moon landing's 'Dish' telescope still transmitting from Australia

All this was dramatised in 2000 by the movie "The Dish". I would heartily recommend it to anyone with an interest in the landing. It is a gentle Australian comedy about events in and around the radio telescope leading up to and on the day of the landing.

It was a movie full of rubbish -
e.g.
playing cricket in the dish.

[brian ross]

What most people don't realise is that the pictures from Apollo 11's moonlanding were received and retransmitted by an Australian radio telescope at Parkes in New South Wales.

Moon landing's 'Dish' telescope still transmitting from Australia

All this was dramatised in 2000 by the movie "The Dish". I would heartily recommend it to anyone with an interest in the landing. It is a gentle Australian comedy about events in and around the radio telescope leading up to and on the day of the landing.

It was a movie full of rubbish -
e.g.
playing cricket in the dish.

Actually, they weren't playing cricket, Bobby. They were using a tennis ball and a cricket bat to zero the dish so that it pointed close to true when their instruments said it did. To claim a two or three minute scene was representational of the entire Parkes' Telescope's effort is rather silly. It's just a simple, reliable method of making sure that the telescope is pointing where it is meant to be. I understand they still do it today.

[Bobby]

What most people don't realise is that the pictures from Apollo 11's moonlanding were received and retransmitted by an Australian radio telescope at Parkes in New South Wales.

Moon landing's 'Dish' telescope still transmitting from Australia

All this was dramatised in 2000 by the movie "The Dish". I would heartily recommend it to anyone with an interest in the landing. It is a gentle Australian comedy about events in and around the radio telescope leading up to and on the day of the landing.

It was a movie full of rubbish -
e.g.
playing cricket in the dish.

Actually, they weren't playing cricket, Bobby. They were using a tennis ball and a cricket bat to zero the dish so that it pointed close to true when their instruments said it did. To claim a two or three minute scene was representational of the entire Parkes' Telescope's effort is rather silly. It's just a simple, reliable method of making sure that the telescope is pointing where it is meant to be. I understand they still do it today.

Brian,
I haven't seen the movie -
I did read a review that it was half full of made up lies
including a cricket game in the dish.
Also it was the Yanks running it not the Aussies.
In other words the story is mostly bullshit.

[brian ross]

What most people don't realise is that the pictures from Apollo 11's moonlanding were received and retransmitted by an Australian radio telescope at Parkes in New South Wales.

Moon landing's 'Dish' telescope still transmitting from Australia

All this was dramatised in 2000 by the movie "The Dish". I would heartily recommend it to anyone with an interest in the landing. It is a gentle Australian comedy about events in and around the radio telescope leading up to and on the day of the landing.

It was a movie full of rubbish -
e.g.
playing cricket in the dish.

Actually, they weren't playing cricket, Bobby. They were using a tennis ball and a cricket bat to zero the dish so that it pointed close to true when their instruments said it did. To claim a two or three minute scene was representational of the entire Parkes' Telescope's effort is rather silly. It's just a simple, reliable method of making sure that the telescope is pointing where it is meant to be. I understand they still do it today.

Brian,
I haven't seen the movie -
I did read a review that it was half full of made up lies
including a cricket game in the dish.
Also it was the Yanks running it not the Aussies.
In other words the story is mostly bullshit.

Get back to us when you've actually seen what you are talking about, Bobby. Otherwise, I'd recommend you stop commenting any further before you put your foot even further into your mouth. Tsk, tsk.

[Bobby]

Dear Brian,
I couldn't be bothered watching a movie that
has been canned by the critics.

[brian ross]

Dear Brian,
I couldn't be bothered watching a movie that
has been canned by the critics.

So, believe what the critics say, rather than make your own opinion, Bobby?

So, what did you think about these movies, Bobby? Did you even see them?

It's a Wonderful Life
Blade Runner
The Shawshank Redemption
Brazil
Citizen Kane
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Fight Club
The Wizard of Oz

All were canned by the Critics but loved by the audiences, Bobby.

Watch the Dish and then you can talk.

[Bobby]

Dear Brian,
I couldn't be bothered watching a movie that
has been canned by the critics.

So, believe what the critics say, rather than make your own opinion, Bobby?

So, what did you think about these movies, Bobby? Did you even see them?

It's a Wonderful Life
Blade Runner
The Shawshank Redemption
Brazil
Citizen Kane
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Fight Club
The Wizard of Oz

All were canned by the Critics but loved by the audiences, Bobby.

Watch the Dish and then you can talk.

I never saw any of those gay movies.

[brian ross]

Dear Brian,
I couldn't be bothered watching a movie that
has been canned by the critics.

So, believe what the critics say, rather than make your own opinion, Bobby?

So, what did you think about these movies, Bobby? Did you even see them?

It's a Wonderful Life
Blade Runner
The Shawshank Redemption
Brazil
Citizen Kane
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Fight Club
The Wizard of Oz

All were canned by the Critics but loved by the audiences, Bobby.

Watch the Dish and then you can talk.

I never saw any of those gay movies.

Who said any of them were Gay, Bobby? What sort of movies do you watch? Let me guess, Clint Eastwood and Arnie?