Random Houston Pics

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I finally got the Houston images into Erato, and Erato modified to export them as I wanted. If you want to poke through all of them, look at http://www.cyphertext.net/images/Erato/Groups/trips/houston-2003/. Most of them aren't very interesting, of course, so here are some highlights.

Our poor hotel room:
Big foam mess
The center of the universe
Why yes, that is a vise. Why do you ask?
Dremel tool, aluminum chips and dust on the floor of the designated loud noise area: Dymaxion's and my bedroom

Networking:
Testing wireless reception in the bathroom
Our LAN
The antenna we hid in the business center to get broadband in our room

Super Guppy:
The entire crazy plane
I am the evil Dr. Brain! And a plane! I am an evil genius plane!
Dymaxion lost in the cargo section

One of two remaining B-57s, the other was out flying that day

Mission control:
Dude! We're wandering around mission control!
An obnoxiously meta pictures of one of the NASA TV cameras in the STS MCC

Saturn Park:
Rocket farm, poor fallen giant rusting away
Irony I just couldn't resist
Combustion chamber on one of five giant F-1 engines, with injection port and combustion instability fighting baffles visible
A cute little Mercury-Redstone

Random:
The fine art of natural cosmetic surgery
Best Western NASA
Vacuum fries!