Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, Space tracking station in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station was a NASA Earth station near Canberra that operated from 1967 to 1981. Its 26-metre dish and support buildings stood on a site that is now marked only by a concrete foundation and an outdoor display added in 2001.

The station opened in 1967 and became crucial during the Apollo 11 mission when it transmitted the first images of Neil Armstrong on the Moon in July 1969. It was one of three global locations needed to maintain continuous contact with spacecraft as they orbited and landed.

The station embodies Australian-American scientific partnership and shows how the country played a key role in space exploration. Local teams worked alongside NASA staff to track and communicate with missions far from Earth.

Visitors can explore the concrete foundations that remain and information boards describing the station's role in space communications. The site is open and walkable, with room to move around the grounds at your own pace.

The 26-metre dish that received the first Moonwalk images was moved to Tidbinbilla and redesignated Deep Space Station 46; in May 2010 the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics declared it a Historical Aerospace Site, and it remains there as a historical site.