who owned Honeysuckle?
The Department of Supply (or Science, or Manufac Ind) owned it, being the Australian Govt Agency responsible, and so supplied the Director, Deputy and Admin/Finance officer. Tom Reid owned it, because he was the Director, and didn t care which Australian Govt agency might be nominally in charge at any time (Supply, Manufac Ins, Science, Science and Technology, Manufacturing Industry, CSIRO). STC (or AWA or Fairey) owned it because all the staff (except 3 DOS) were their employees. The staff (contractor and DOS) owned it, because it didn t matter who the various public and private organisations responsible were. All THEY had to do well was to be a good conduit for pay and other money from NASA. NASA owned it because they paid every dollar spent there. Goddard owned it, because they were responsible for the engineering (Spec, installation, maintenance, modification) and operations logistics and training and budgets, etc. The American Projects Branch, American Projects Division (Dept of S
