PARKES, Australia (Reuters) - It's known as "The Dish" and it soars above a nondescript paddock in rural Australia. Without it, hundreds of millions of people would never have seen all of the ...

copied later for the antennas of NASA’s deep-space tracking stations. “Building Parkes was a big project and a bold step,” says the Dr John Reynolds, the Parkes Observatory’s Officer-in-Charge. “It ...

It is the movie that opened the eyes of a new generation to Australia's role in the first Moon landing and turned a rural observatory into a tourism hot spot. The Dish was released 25 years ago and ...

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