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Devil's Ashpit & NASA Tracking Station, Ascension Island, St. Helena
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The Devil's Ashpit is a hill of 1,759 feet on the east side of Ascension Island, right next to the NASA Tracking Station.
The former NASA Tracking Station was part of the NASA Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network, an integrated Apollo and deep-space station (DSS 72) was constructed in 1965. There being no ongoing need for the station, most of it (including all the antenna and other sensitive equipment) was dismantled in 1990 leaving only concrete bases and a few buildings the most important of which being the former operations building which is now used by the Boys Scouts.
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