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This is the story of how high-tech met the outback and the ‘can-do’ spirit - how a little outback town in Australia helped put man on the Moon. Carnarvon in 1969 was a town with no television and only a manual telephone exchange yet it was the home of the largest NASA Space Tracking Station outside mainland USA. In 1969, the small isolated outback town of Carnarvon in northwestern Australia was known for its bananas, prawns and sheep stations. The movie The Dish introduced audiences to part of Australia’s role in the Space Race; but this is the true story of a town, the people, the challenges, the missions, the tensions and the creativity that took Carnarvon to the forefront of the greatest technological achievement and television event of the 20th century.

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Meticulously researched & nicely iluustrated, the authors provide a detailed, but affectionate, account of how the most exciting episode in human spaceflight opened up a whole new world for thousands of people 'down under'. - The Observatory Magazine, Volume 131, April 2011

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