About 600 million people watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon in July 1969.

But many of those pictures were only possible thanks to a scientific outpost in rural Australia.

The first few minutes of footage came via Honeysuckle Creek - another dish in Australia near the capital Canberra - before it was switched to Parkes in New South Wales which had a better signal.

We visited Parkes to meet the man who helped get those famous images on to TV sets around the globe.

Video by Simon Atkinson