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gawdonblue writes:

In the early 1960s, the US began setting up deep-space tracking stations in Australia. Doug Rickard found himself tracking missions to Mars and the moon. Friendly scientific rivalry and those small but spectacular mistakes in space exploration made for a rich episode in Doug's life. These are stories from his memoirs.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/memoirs/default.htm [abc.net.au]

(apologies if dupe, and also I stole "the scoop" from the story page - is that OK?)

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