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Parkes - Moon Landing




Parkes is also famous for its radio telescope which along with other Australian telescopes assisted in the moon walk coverage 50 years ago. Did you view the moon walk on that day?

I was at school.  Those from farms or who didn't have televisions at home (I was one of them) were assigned to places in town to watch.  I was with a bunch of schoolgirls at the headteacher's residence.


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  1. Iris FlaviaJuly 20, 2019 at 5:29 PM

    My hubby was four years old, it was around 3:00 am, when his parents dragged him out of bed to watch. He thought it was a comic :-)
    I was born later.

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    1. Joan ElizabethJuly 21, 2019 at 5:20 PM

      I remember being dragged out of bed at that time of morning by my Dad to see a comet. I am glad he did because there has never been anything as spectacular in our skies since.

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  2. shirley evansJuly 20, 2019 at 7:21 PM

    I remember watching the moon landing. I was working in the city and went out to watch it on a TV in the electrical department of a department store. It was quite amazing.

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    1. Joan ElizabethJuly 21, 2019 at 5:23 PM

      Those were the days when the electrical stores had lots of TVs playing in the windows and TV starved people like I was as a kid gawking at them. I guess that day had a lot of people gawking.

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  3. KayJuly 21, 2019 at 11:59 AM

    I was working. I think I tuned in on the radio.

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    1. Joan ElizabethJuly 21, 2019 at 5:25 PM

      I remember it was quite boring. It would have been more so without visual.

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  4. William KendallJuly 26, 2019 at 8:14 AM

    An impressive telescope. It was years before my birth.

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