The Final Orbit: Apollo and Space Shuttle: Australia's Orroral Valley Space Tracking Station and the End of Ground-based Manned Space Flight Tracking

Clark, Philip: - Philip Clark came to Orroral Valley Space Tracking Station at the end of 1966 as a technician. When the station closed in 1985 he was the Senior Operations Supervisor (SOS). After leaving the Spacetracking industry, he was engaged in senior technical, engineering and research positions in government and private industry. In 1993 he was awarded a National Medal of Australia for Service. In 1999 he gained a Master of Science degree from the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra. He maintains an interest in amateur radio, through which he has been one of few people to speak both with Russian Cosmonauts on the USSR 'MIR' space station and USA astronauts on the Space Shuttle 'Columbia' from his car! He is the author of a number of books, technical manuals, and of articles for technical magazines. At the time of writing he is retired.