agency: Now, 50 years on, Australia has a fledgling space agency a minnow compared with the US's Nasa, Europe's ESA and Japan's JAXA but what it lacks in size it is hoping to make up for with a smart operating strategy and a bold vision of what it might be able to achieve, according to The Guardian. The Australian Space Agency ASA deputy director, Anthony Murfett, says that the anniversary provides a chance to look back and be proud of the role we played but it's also a good time to be looking at what the next 50 years will mean. It was a big achievement for a small country with no space program of its own. They nailed it' how a little dish in Australia broadcast the moon landing to the world Read more Australia's role in the moon landing was almost a gift of geography. A global network was needed as the moon was only above the horizon and within the sights of each dish for half of every day. Nasa was using a series of large dish-shaped antennas in California's Mojave Desert, central Spain and south-eastern Australia to receive the signals from the Apollo lunar module.
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