"Houston...we have a problem.." (always wanted to say that)

Apart from the oil industry, houston is pretty famous for the NASA control station, immortalised (usually incorrectly) for the apollo 13 near disaster. nasa is strangely only 25 minutes from my house but id never been before, there are a few incredible things about the place, the Saturn 5 rocket as shown above is one of them. its basically a massive fuel tank, only the small triangular bit at the end actually houses people and makes it back to earth, the rest of it is basically space junk. the massive 5 f150 engines at the back end are only used for the first 2 minutes of the trip, these are blown off and land in the sea, only to be used for a mere 2 minutes...millions of dollars, the rest is blown away in space. the engineering is mind boggling, but mightily impressive. the other cool thing about nasa houston is that it is a working facility, we toured the workshops and testing bays where astronaughts actually train. its a bit like when i worked in jaguar cars in the uk...people would take tours of the factiry while you worked...a pretty strange experience...anyway, was a great place to visit