The Cooby Creek Space Tracking Station was commissioned on October 22, 1966 as part of NASA's Applications Technology Satellite project. Patrick Hetherman was part of the 120-person team of ...

All that remains of the Cooby Creek Tracking Station is a slab of concrete in a quiet paddock, 20 kilometres north of Toowoomba on the Darling Downs. But 50 years ago, the site was home to more ...

JOHN Grant-Thomson worked at the Cooby Creek Tracking Station, near Cooby Dam, for the few years it was operational between 1966 and 1970. The station was instrumental in getting men to the moon ...

Mr Hetherman recounted his memories from Cooby Creek on Friday night, as NASA's connection to the region takes off for a second time. "My time there was absolute magic, it was just pure science ...