The Dish
As Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, the only link was a satellite dish in rural Australia with a few bugs...and a few hundred sheep...the true story of what we didn't see.
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As the movie opens, an elderly visitor arrives at a remote tracking station in the outback of Australia. He is Cliff Buxton (My Man Sam) returning to the place where, in 1969, he was in charge when NASA designated it their main southern hemisphere contact with the first Apollo moon mission.
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In the days before the July 19, 1969 space mission that marked humankind's first steps on the moon, NASA, in the person of Al Burnett (played by Patrick Warburton) was working with a group of Australian technicians who had agreed to rig up a satellite interface. That the Aussies placed the satellite dish smack dab in the middle of an Australian sheep farm in the boondocks town of Parkes was just one of the reasons that NASA was concerned.
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Town pride, the shaky electricity supply, a worried NASA official, and even romance, all play a part as tensions mount with the world depending on them for pictures of the first moon walk.
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The solution they come up with is probably the first time anyone gave meaning to the phrase 'point and click'.
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