In episode one: in the grip of a crippling drought, Alice Springs sees an economic lifeline in the 1960s when America comes knocking promising to build a space base on the edge of the desert town. But once Pine Gap’s bizarre, oversized golf ball like structures are finally built strange things start happening. The ‘space base’ isn’t quite what it seems. Next episode:    • Politics, pressure and protest at Pin...   Full series:    • Pine Gap: Spies in the Outback | Expa...  

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

That space base, just 18 kilometres south of Alice Springs, would become known as Pine Gap the most secretive intelligence facility in the country.

In season three of ABC’s Expanse, host and Alice Springs journalist Alex Barwick goes back to the beginning to find out what on earth is happening in her backyard.

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