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INTRODUCING – Expanse S3: Spies in the Outback

INTRODUCING – Expanse S3: Spies in the Outback

When America promised to build a space base in outback Australia in the middle of the 1960s space race, few suspected it would put Australia in the nuclear cross-hairs in decades to come. That space base, just 18ks from Alice Springs, would come to be known as Pine Gap - possibly the most secretive place in Australia.

Expanse · Australian Broadcasting Corporation

April 11, 20244m 15strailer

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When America promised to build a space base in outback Australia in the middle of the 1960s space race, few suspected it would put Australia in the nuclear cross-hairs in decades to come. 

That space base, just 18ks from Alice Springs, would come to be known as Pine Gap - possibly the most secretive place in Australia.

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