What's The Dish? It's the story of a small Australian village's critical participation in the broadcast of the most watched TV show ever: the 1969 space walk. As it turned out, Parkes, Australia was (and is) the home of one of the largest radio telescopes in the southern hemisphere. NASA needed that telescope to handle radio signals -- and eventually TV signals -- during the 12 hours of daytime in the northern hemisphere. And so, the connection from earth to the moon came down to three Australians, an American rep from NASA and a security guard of limited intelligence.