Apollo in Ascension

6/3/2026

If you've ever fancied living somewhere remote and barren, then perhaps 1960s Ascension Island might fit your bill? Crafted from the spew of some forty-odd volcanoes, this pile of ash in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean has barely any human inhabitants; a graveyard for those abandoned there suffering from yellow fever and a few wild donkeys left behind by the Royal Navy generations ago. All of this isolation is perfect for NASA, though, who have teamed up with C&W to build a satellite tracking station here to work on assisting the forthcoming Apollo mission to the moon. What we watch for the next half hour follows the meticulous construction of this complex piece of electrical and mechanical engineering amidst a landscape that is probably only marginally less hospitable than the lunar one