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Up early again on the morning of the 11th, I changed my route due to weather (which is becoming a theme for this trip). I was going to drive east on I-40 to Oklahoma City and then south to Houston, but the weather was better going south to El Paso and then east to Houston. I got to San Antonio in mid-afternoon and stayed there for the rest of the day. I slept in for a change and left on the relatively short drive to Houston just before noon on the 12th. I got to the hotel near the Johnson Space Center around 3:30 pm.
The next day, the 13th, I did the tour of Johnson Space Center. The space center controls all U.S. manned space flights and has since 1965. It isn't as "visually spectacular" as Kennedy Space Center. A lot of buildings. There is a "rocket garden" with another flight-ready Saturn V rocket that was wasted in the mid-1970s -- which is where I took all of these pictures. A lot of it looks like this:
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And the Saturn V, which would have been used on another lunar landing flight -- Apollo 18, which was cancelled in 1970 along with Apollo 19 (Apollo 20 was cancelled prior to that).
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The really interesting things were indoors, where flash photography was discouraged. I am now carrying a video camera with me and I got some video inside the aforementioned buildings, but it was still a little underwhelming compared to my visits to the Kennedy Space Center.
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