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That applied to people who worked there, who could be imprisoned for breaking the Official Secrets Act. It was a matter of life and death at the time. As I said previously, the lunar buggy can still be seen on the moon, by the satellite tracker at Parkes Astronomy site in Australia. Other...

When things went wrong on Apollo 13, the Russians offered to help.

Australia had a dish from 1961 which was tracking satellites. In 1969. NASA thought their pictures were of better quality than their own, so used Parkes pictures instead. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-moon-australia-idUSKCN1UD07L When I left the Navy, I had a job at...

I was doing my homework and the news came on. Shock waves throughout the western world.