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Talbit
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Posted: 05:20pm 19 Jun 2013

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Roll up - Roll up. See two Maximites in action!
Canberra is celebrating its 100th birthday. One of the celebrations will be at Canberra's Questacon on 20th and 21st July 2013 where there will be some demonstrations and talks of Canberra's role in the Apollo 11 lunar landing. I'll be displaying the recreation of the seismic trace that was produced when the astronauts placed a seismometer on the surface. Geoscience Australia has produced a 2 metre tall banner that tells the story. I'll have a drum recorder reproducing the trace in real time. The display will be in the foyer of Questacon and is free. There will be talks and memorabilia. I've used the MM for the clock and for the crunching of the original seismic data onto the drum recorder. Come along and say hello.
Keep looking here for updates.
http://canberra.questacon.edu.au/events/#toggler_June2013
Click on July 2013
Kind regards to all
Trevor

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Posted: 06:28pm 19 Jun 2013

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I will be visiting my sister up there around that time, so a bit of entertainment probably will come just welcome...Edited by kiiid 2013-06-21

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James_From_Canb

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Posted: 11:59am 20 Jun 2013

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Sounds like a good excuse for Canberra folk to put a face to names.
See you there.

James

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Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles (1974)

Talbit
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Posted: 12:29am 24 Jun 2013

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The Questacon site isn't 100% correct. It says there will be a replica of the seismic system that was left on the moon. This is 100% incorrect! Hopefully, Questacon will fix this tomorrow.
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Posted: 12:49pm 26 Jun 2013

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This is a better site telling what will be happenning on the weekend...
http://tinyurl.com/apollofest2
But for the updated Questacon site go to...
http://questacon.edu.au/
and you'll see the add for Apollo 11.
Regards
TrevorEdited by Talbit 2013-06-27

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Posted: 05:28pm 26 Jun 2013

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I was up at Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station site the other day. Anyone interested in the Apollo program and visiting the ACT should definitely include this in their travels. There's a campground and bbq's there, as well as plaques that tell the story of the site and the apollo missions.

The thing I love most about Honeysuckle Creek site is that it's the very first place in history on planet earth to receive a voice message from the surface of an alien world (as Neil went down the ladder).

Talbit
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Posted: 10:35am 09 Jul 2013

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Go to this superb site for a detailed history of the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station.

http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/

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Posted: 02:45pm 01 Oct 2013

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If you are in Sydney on Sunday 6 Oct come along to the Power House Museum and say hello. I'll be there with the Apollo 11 Seismic display.
The museum is running their annual "Space Week" event.
Regards
Trevor

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