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• April 1st in Houston - Rod and Debbie Johnson with Kathy
• Rod and Kathy in the park near the Houston Zoo
• Puffball sculpture
• Got my ducks in a line
• Duck and chicks
• Tons of turtles
• April 2nd at the Houston Zoo outside Debbie's office
• Rod, Kathy, and Debbie at the zoo entrance
• Jellyfish in the aquarium
• Sponges and fish
• A ray in the upper corner
• The lion fish is venomous
• A giant octopus
• Angel fish
• Nemo and friends
• Sea turtle in the aquarium building
• Large pirhanas
• A blue macaw
• A parade of flamingos
• One of the giraffes
• He's watching the incoming food arriving
• Giraffes feeding
• Kathy feeding lettuce to the giraffes
• Arnie feeding a giraffe
• Two large rhinos
• This ape entertained the kids
• A mountain gorilla
• They are large animals
• A gorilla having some lunch
• A large tapir
• These cattle from central Africa have huge, honeycombed, horns
• An okapi, only relative of the giraffe
• One of several elephants
• An elephant from Borneo
• They like eating from the elevated boxes
• Another elephant
• The Comodo Dragon is a fearsome lizard
• Some info on the Komodo Dragon
• Not exactly friendly looking
• A fifteen-foot rock python
• An iguana
• A green Mamba (extremely dangerous) from Africa
• A rattlesnake
• Two copperhead snakes
• The diamondback rattle snake, common to the Southwest
• A star turtle
• Cluster of old oak trees
• A magnificent Oak tree in the zoo commons
• Debbie at work, assistant to the zoo director
• Kathy and Arnie at the Johnson Space Center
• April 3rd at the Johnson Space Center - Kathy & Arnie
• Kathy and Rod at the entrance
• One of the space shuttles and the airplane that moves the shuttles around
• A lunar lander
• Apollo Service Module and return capsule
• Looking at an asteroid
• An Internation Space Station Model
• Mockup of Orion Mission Module
• Inside the Orion Mars Mission Module
• Orion information
• On a tour of some of the Center's facilities
• The Mission Control Center was under construction and could not be visited
• Our SAIL docent. He was good.
• First stop was the SAIL (Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory)
• Interior bay wiring - all testing of the shuttle is done in this facility
• Looking into the front window of the shuttle
• A look at a shuttle control center
• The cables remind me of some of the network closets I worked in over the years
• Next stop was the ISS test center (International Space Station)
• The Soyuz module was the first main section
• A working tour on the ISS test floor
• One of the US modules in the ISS
• One of several robots under test
• Another robot testing area
• Testing a wheeled rover
• Robot testing
• The staff was working on several robots
• Robot testing
• The third stop was Rocket Park. A Mercury rocket was outside
• An Atlas Rocket
• Kathy and Rod in fromt of a rocket engine
• Five stage 1 rocket engines
• The Saturn moon rocket is 364 feet long, taller than the Statue of Liberty
• Here are the five engines at the end of Stage 1
• Stage 1 information
• Stage 2 kicks in using liquid hydrogen and oxygen fuel
• Stage 2 information
• Stage 3 gets them to the moon
• Stage 3 information
• The lunar lander, command center, and return capsule are in this section
• Lunar Landing Modules information
• Lunar landing info
• A look into the Apollo return module
• An Apollo capsule
• Diorama of astronauts and a lunar rover
• Actual moon rocks
• Inside the shuttle at the control console
• This one was carrying a communications satellite
• The shuttle was the Independence
• View of the rear of the shuttle
• A shuttle spacesuit
• The air lock for spacewalks
• Another view of the shuttle
• Rod and Kathy in the shuttle aircraft
• A history of spacesuit development
• One of the shuttle spacewalk suits
• Our guest room at Rod & Debbie's
• I like this decoration in the guest bathroom at their house
• A view from the front hall
• A nice dining room
• Rod & Kathy in their living room
• A really nice kitchen
• The master bedroom has a huge bath and walk-in closet
• Their patio
• A nice back yard for their dog, Kai
• It's a nice, new home in the south suburb of Rosharon
• On April 4th we drove to Fort Worth and the TCU Campus
• The volleyball team on the wall
• Tyler and Julia Peniata with Kathy in the Horned Frogs volleyball facility
• First view of the TCU tennis facility
• Public courts are available
• TCU has a super tennis facility - looking at the varsity courts
• Interior view of Julia and Tyler's building
• TCU conference room
• Tyler in the women's volleyball locker area
• Bathroom and shower area
• The volleyball womens lockers - Julia and Kathy
• Julia and Kathy
• A look at the beach volleyball courts
• Hall of Fame photo of Jill Kramer, current TCU volleyball coach
• A recent photo of the TCU volleyball team
• At the football stadium
• Taking a break on the TCU tour
• This is another really nice facility
• The mascot is a horned frog, nasty looking
• Entrance to the TCU Commons
• The TCU commons
• Arnie high-fiving the team mascot
• The Commons Fountains
• Tyler, Julia, and Kathy at the Commons fountain
• We had fun driving golf balls here while Julia was at practice with the team
• Tyler drives one to the end wall
• Kathy driving a ball (straight down the middle)
• A cattle ride at the Fort Worth Stockyard
• Livestock Exchange information
• Tyler, Kathy, and Julia at the Fort Worth Stock Yards
• Stockyard pens for Texas Longhorn cattle
• Some resting longhorns
• Texas longhorns
• One of the large Texas Longhorns at the stock yard
• The Coliseum
• A statue of a rodeo event, dog roping
• Front view of dog roping statue
• Arnie and Kathy at the entrance
• This is a Fort Worth tourist attraction with lots of good restaurants
• Further up the street
• There were many Trail of Fame stars
• At the top of the main Stockyard street
• Kathy, Julia, and Tyler at Riscky's Steakhouse
• Some live music along the way
• Tyler, Kathy, and Julia on a shopping and restaurant street