Partners in space: CSIRO and NASA celebrate its 50th anniversary

The 26th of February 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of CSIRO's partnership with NASA in solar system exploration. Learn more about our historic collaboration in this video.

The milestone in international cooperation marks the completion of the first half century of treaty level partnership in space tracking between CSIRO and NASA.

Since the early 1960s NASA has contracted CSIRO radio telescopes to augment its network of tracking stations for particular missions as part of its Deep Space Network (DSN).

CSIRO manages the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex (CDSCC), one of three DSN stations around the world used for communicating with NASA's spacecraft.

In this video, key personnel from CSIRO and NASA reflect on the accomplishments of the CDSCC and the DSN, which is founded primarily on its people and the strength of international collaboration stretching back to the beginning of space exploration.

More information about CSIRO's astronomy and space science at http://www.csiro.au/org/CASS.html

More about the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex at http://www.csiro.au/en/Outcomes/Understanding-the-Universe/Operating-our-radi...

This video was produced by CSIRO Publishing - http://www.publish.csiro.au/multimedia

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• CSIRO
• NASA
• astronomy
• space
• radio telescope
• astronaut
• space exploration
• deep space
• spacecraft
• solar system

[135anderson]

Great content. Good to Australia playing such an important role.

[quantumG]

Dr Andy Thomas was born in Adelaide in 1951. He relinquished his Australian citizenship in 1986. In 1997, just prior to his Mir mission he reinstated it.