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Article: With help from Disney, NASA creates stellar attraction in Space Center Houston. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- July 5, 1994
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HOUSTON _ At first blush, it looks like your everyday urban college.
Boxy, buff-colored buildings dot a tree-shaded grassy campus. Fountains, pools and plazas gleam in the Texas sun.
But then you spot a Saturn 5 rocket the size of Idaho. And you pass a forest of white microwave dishes aimed at satellites. And inside a walk-in vault on a fringe of the campus, a sign beckons you to ``Touch the Moon.''
NASA's Johnson Space Center is pretty nifty.
The University of Outer Space.
To be here is irrepressibly A-OK. After all, wasn't ``Houston'' the very first word spoken from the moon 25 years ago? Wasn't this where the crews of all those Apollo moon missions ...