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Parkes Airport, NSW, Austrailia (IATA: PKE, ICAO: YPKS) is an airport located 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) northeast of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. Approximately 32,000 passengers used scheduled service at the airport in 2011.
First Landing on the Moon, Parkes and the movie "The Dish"
The Parkes Observatory (also known informally as "The Dish" is a radio telescope observatory, located 20 kilometres north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. It was one of several radio antennas used to receive live, televised images of the Apollo 11 moon landing on 20 July 1969. Its scientific contributions over the decades led the ABC to describe it as "the most successful scientific instrument ever built in Australia" after 50 years of operation.
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