Life at 76 Degrees North: Inside Pituffik Space Base
Pituffik Space Base sits 1,500 kilometers from the North Pole on Greenland's northwest coast — the northernmost installation in the entire U.S. Department of Defense. It's also reportedly the most expensive overseas base the United States operates, at over $100 million a year, roughly ten times the cost of an average Air Force base. So what does it actually take to keep several hundred people, a 10,000-foot runway, and a missile warning radar running year-round at 76 degrees north? We dig into who really lives there (the population numbers everyone gets wrong), the contractor-heavy workforce…
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