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I've been to Houston once...it was with the Future Astronaut Training Program at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center when I was a camper there in eighth grade. It was a lot of fun and we got to a lot of places that the general public never gets to go to. I got to walk aroudn and in space station mockups back in 1996! I also got to eat dinner sitting acrose the table from Astronaut Jeff Ashby, who was the shuttle commander on STS 112, which was the last mission before the one that just went up on Friday.
Now as a counselor for FATP, I'm hoping that I'll get to go down there this up coming summer with the group. FATP is the only student group that goes to Johnson Space Center on a regular schedule with the type of access that we get. It's really cool b/c several of the former counselors are now engineers with the various contractors down there, so as time as gone on the program gets to view a wider variety of places. I'm really hoping to get to make the trip, but first I have to get rehired!!!1
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