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Do you have any source that spells this out? Reading wikipedia, I get a fairly different story. I did a short search for other versions, but mostly just found

• bathat 14y ago
  I'm sure it's mentioned in Moon Shot[1]. Most books about the space race mention it. Houston was just one of several proposed locations which met NASA's official specifications for a mission control site. One of those specifications was the minimum distance between mission control and the launch site. That specification was revised upward so that it just barely excluded the then-leading site after Rice University agreed to donate the land. It doesn't take a Von Braun to figure out what happened. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Shot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Shot
  • shardling 14y ago
    That's completely different than what the other poster (Symmetry) claimed -- that they otherwise would have been in the same location. That politics plays into the decision making process of which site to use isn't too shocking, but Symmetry was claiming that the very creation of that site was political.
• catch23 14y ago
  http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4201/ch12-3.htm http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4201/ch12-3.htm NASA denied there was political influence, but it's hard to say since the stars lined up perfectly for them.