TRACKING STATION
Third Site Sought
(N.ZP. A.-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. A United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration survey team will arrive in Australia next week to select a third major tracking station site near Canberra. This was announced by the Australian Supply Minister (Mr Allen Fairhall) after a meeting with the administrator of N.A.S.A., Mr James Webb. Mr Fairhall said the complex of three tracking stations in the Canberra region would each have different functions in the American space programme. The cost to N.A.S.A. of the three stations would be 20m dollars and, when completed,, it would bring the American space investment in Australia to about 40m dollars. This included the existing tracking facilities at Woomera and Carnarvon. Mr Fairhall told a news conference that the first Canberra area station, at Tidbinbilla, was due to be ready to begin tracking of deep space probes by March of next year.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30560, 1 October 1964, Page 20
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