Posted on 03/14/2012 9:37:56 AM PDT by sandshark222
I’d like to spit some beachnut in that dude’s eye.
NASA and Ball Aerospace engineering technicians guide 2 mounted mirrors into NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's X-ray and Cryogenic Facility's vacuum chamber for testing. Credit: NASA/MSFC, E. Given
The Marshall Space Flight Center is in Alabama. This was Wernher Von Braun's facility which built the Saturn rocket.
Here is the Saturn V first stage being assembled at the Michoud Assembly facility in New Orleans, LA.
The Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. When Tom Hanks had a problem, did he call Hollywood? No, he called Houston. And they fixed it.
Yankees are amazed at what a world-class city Huntsville has become in such a short time. It wasn't too many decades ago that nearby Decatur was the dominant city and "Huntspatch" was just a town.
There are great recreational areas in the Mountain Lakes area and stunning vistas. Where else in the world can you find something as out of this world as the Marshall Space Flight Center and get out of this world food over at Greenbrier Bar-B-Que?
Cape Canaveral Air Force base, along with the Kennedy Space Center in the background, Titusville, Florida.
Well, to me it looks like the whole gulf coast is well represented in the space program, from the early 1960s on. As for Hollywood, they can only fake moon landings.
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