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> On 21st July 1969, Parkes Observatory gained fame for providing TV
> pictures for
> all but about 11 minutes of the first lunar landing, via
> <http://www.lugnet.com/~469/projects/parkes their 64 metre radio telescope>.
> Since then, it has become an important cog in the wheel of space exploration,
> and has become part of Australian folklore, even becoming the subject of
> <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/ a movie>.
Very nice Ross, how long did it take to put this together?
however, I reckon the <http://ldraw.org/library/official/images/7/30201.png
Saucer Base> might have been a different alternative for the
dish. although it might work out a bit bigger than the scale you have here
Very Aussie though!
Leg Godt
Travis Matheson
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| (...) Thanks! Well, I had the dish part already built for another project (URL) but saw that it would work just as well up the other way. The rest took but a few hours. (...) Well I had in the past looked at using parts like that for a radar dish, (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.microscale)
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| "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong (URL) Parkes Radio Telescope> On 21st July 1969, Parkes Observatory gained fame for providing TV pictures for all but about 11 minutes of the first lunar landing, via (URL) their (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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