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 n…
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