Listen to episode 141 of The Adelaide Show, which was published on May 4, 2016, to find out which story is the fake.
Class ‘eavesdrops’ on space craft.
Victor Harbor Times Dec 1974
Mr. Chris Tapscott’s class at Victor Harbor Primary School on Tuesday used his HAM radio equipment to “eavesdrop” on the Skylab launched earlier by the United States.
As the students were listening to conversations between the astronauts in the space shuttle and mission control centre in Houston, Texas, the space station was passing over Australia. As a “fill-in” a woman at mission control gave technical information about the space voyage. The children concerned will follow the voyage of the space station, adding their knowledge about new technological developments.
The Rocket Accident at Largs
Evening Journal 1889
DEFECTIVE ROCKETS.—The captain of one of the launches lying at Largs Bay on Saturday says he distinctly saw the third rocket explode after it had struck Tremble, and before it reached the water. It shattered itself to pieces between the Jetty and the edge of the water, sending splinters about in all directions. This statement goes to show that the rocket itself is defective, and had it burst before leaving the Jetty it is hard to say what the consequences would have been.
Chose name for Rocket Range
News October 1951
The man who chose “Woomera” as the name for South Australia’s rocket range is a passenger in the Himalaya, which berthed at Outer Harbor today from eastern States. He is Major A. I. Wynne-Williams, a Welshman, who is retiring from the British Ministry of Supply and returning home after five years' pioneering and experimental work in connection with the rocket site and project. Major .Wynne-Williams said an aboriginal dictionary defined the word “Woomera” -as a “launching device”.