Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum

the carnarvon tracking station was located 10 kilometres south from carnarvon. the station was built to support nasa's gemini, apollo and skylab programs. it was commissioned in 1964 and operated for 11 years. it was the last station to communicate with the space capsules leaving the earth orbit, and the last to make contact before splashdown in the pacific ocean. at the height of the operation it had a staff of 220 people.