I had a  chance to visit Neil and Sam last month. They were nice enough to drive all the way down to Houston to meet me. I was travelling to Lamar University in Beaumont, TX. It was especially good to see Will, who is growing SO big.
While Neil and Sam were there, we did take-out and played games on Friday night in their hotel room. On Saturday, we drove to the Johnson Space Flight Center, which was cool for me. I hadn't been there before an really enjoyed it.


This is a picture of us standing in line for a ride around the space flight center. It was fun to see the location where so many important things that interest me have happened.

These pictures are by a large rocket outside the big building which housed the rocket that was going to launch a later Apollo mission if it hadn't been scrubbed. The technology is impressive on two accounts. One is for the astronauts who were brave enough to sit in a tiny capsule on top of one of these things. Another is for the amazing engineers who accomplished amazing feats given the technology available to them at the time.

This is climbing up the stairs to see the Space Shuttle Columbia. We could walk all through is as well as in the plane which was used to launch it. The story about the engineer who convinced NASA to launch it from a plane after the challenger disaster was pretty interesting as well.