Daily Mirror

Brit expat sent live shots of moon

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VITAL JOB Mike now and then JUST before 3am GMT on July 21 Neil Armstrong took a first step on the moon. And the man responsibl­e for ensuring TV networks across the globe saw it as it happened was Mike Dinn, from Bradford, West Yorks. He had resettled in Australia in 1960 and was deputy station director of the Honeysuckl­e Creek tracking station, near Canberra, Australia – one of three facilities NASA used to keep in touch with Ap when Armstrong put the moon it was on th Mike and his 25-stron operating the 85ft “b

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