BTW Gary, seeing as you mentioned your Background in the Land of Oz, you should definitely check out a movie called "The Dish".

It's a "Gentle" Comedy about the story of how the Parkes Observatory was used to relay the live television of man's first steps on the moon, during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

Not exactly the same "what and when" you were doing back in '60, but you would undoubtedly get a (little) kick out of watching it...