Thank you to everyone who was able to make it, and a special thankyou to Stan
Lebar who came down from Maryland USA to thank us for our support during the
Apollo Program. Stan brought down one of the Apollo-11 camera prototypes
(probably valued at US $1M plus) and his wife Elaine & sons Mark and Scott.
Actually I am not sure who brought who - but it was great to meet them all.
Stan's speech at the lunch obviously came from the heart, and is well covered on
the Colin's Honeysuckle
'official' web site and also on John Sarkissian's
Parkes web site Actually those two sites have made this page somewhat
redundant. But I do want to express my thanks to all concerned.Incidentally Bryan Sullivan brought along the switch behind Stan in this photo - most ex-HSK people will recognise it!
I was also delighted that Ed VonRenouard of 'Video Von' fame was able to make
it all the way from U.K. via Adelaide. Ed was accompanied by his son Mark who
drove up from Adelaide. Also Nev Eyre came down from Bunderim with Sue. Nev also
supported most of the Apollo missions at the video console, and it was
terrific that all the video types could finally get together. Ed is shown
between Stan and Mike Dinn on the left. Ed brought THE TV inversion switch and
the associated circuit board, plus biomed chart recordings and other memorabilia
from the UK, and later presented them to Glen Nagle for retention and display at
the CDSCC Space Centre. Thanks Ed.
On the evening of the same day (it seemed like a long day to me), but it
must have seemed much longer to Stan and family, Stan gave a very successful
talk at the National Museum, all very interesting stuff which would have
required a lot of preparation (and great support from Son Scott :-) - so thanks
once again. It was also very good that Glen Nagle (who manages the CDSCC
visitor's centre) was able to bring along another video camera - this one also
designed by Stan and his team and it was flown on the Apollo-Soyuz mission
(followed by several Skylab flights and a shuttle flight?). Many thanks for that
Glen.