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The Parkes Radio Telescope is located 20km from Parkes Australia. It was one of the several Radio Telescopes to receive live television pictures of the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.

It was completed in 1961 and was the brains of E.G. (Taffy) Bowen. It was 64m, the second largest in the southern hemisphere, and one of the first movable dishes in the world. Now after it was finished being made, it is very well used. In fact it was being used right after it was built to still around this present day. It has an 18m Antenna. This dish has been involved with Apollo missions for a while but eventually was abandoned in the early 1980's. Even though they left it to be NASA was inspired by the design of the dish and copied the basic design of it for their deep space network.