Carnarvon - Space Museum

Our First Day in Carnarvon was wet. Therefore we were restricted to inside activities and decided to go to the space museum. A great decision as we had a lot of fun and the boys asked if we could go back.

Carnarvon was set up as an OTC (Overland Telecommunications). But later was used in the NASA space program to track shuttles, such as the Apollo 11 mission when man first landed on the moon.

Boys getting ready to blast off on the Apollo 11 mission

Spot the alien

Shuttle tracking device from NASA

The boys also enjoyed trying land a space shuttle and complete a space walk.

Today the Carnarvon OTC is mainly used to track satallites such as the one used for the NBN. However they still have the old dishes used in previous tracking programs.