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2015.03.30 The Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, 2009
 
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In 2009 I had the chance to skip out on a bit of winter for a couple days and go to Houston, TX to install some software. It was only a light day's work and I was there for 2 days so I had just a little time to see something interesting and I chose the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center because I'm a space nerd from way back and it was not so far away. And, if I remember, I couldn't think of anything more significant, and this was pre-Google and -Expedia and -Yelp and I didn't even bring a laptop or have a smartphone. Old-fashioned tourism.

I wasn't a photographin' phool back then either, and certainly didn't give any consideration to blogging, so these pics aren't anything more than documentation I was there once. They're crap photos, TBH, and had to be gamma-corrected heavily because the JSC lighting was rather subdued (dark), and my camera was a $100 cheapo digital from Radio Shack. With no anti-shake apparently.


Delta V rocket
   

 
    Space
Shuttle
Flight
Deck

 

   

toilet
   

crew lockers
   

cockpit

 
This area had a familiar smell: aluminum and lithium grease I think.
   

Gemini V module
   

2 guys, 8 days in space, like this
   

Lunar Rover
   

Lander Suits

Moon Rocks
   

 
   

Lunar Lander
   

Mission Control
   
 
Saturn V at Rocket Park

I took the tram tour, which showed the grounds and buildings, and a few stops. For reasons I do not remember I have no photos from Building 9 where astronauts train on mock-ups of various vehicles, like the Shuttle. I remember that, but not why I can't show you.

At least I got something: this is a Saturn V rocket in repose in a large shed. It's the whole Apollo stack.


 
   

Delta V rocket
   

plural
   

 
   

 
   

V Delta Vs

this thing has balls!
   

 
   

 
   

Command Module and escape pod
   

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   

 
   
This is Texas! Advertisement along the moving walkway at the airport heading home.
    I have much better pictures of some of these items and more from the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. .

Using the Space Center Houston site while I put this gallery together retroactively really reminds me how little I seemed to care about capturing any of it.

I'll have to go back now...

 
 
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