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TIL Walt Disney Imagineering was hired to create the early concepts for Space Center Houston. It opened to the public in 1992, billed more as an interactive museum than a theme park and visitors could take backstage tours to see astronauts at work
m1jmo
TIL A former skyscraper hotel in downtown Houston was left empty from 1988 until 2013 when it was converted into a Holiday Inn. The vacant building still had electricity, a library, and squattors who made themselves at home with leftover furnishings
KYDBB
TIL After her space shuttle flight, astronaut Lisa Nowak was diagnosed with a variety of mental illnesses, including Asperger's disorder and obsessive compulsive personality disorder. NASA declined to comment whether it identified the disorders when she joined NASA's astronaut corps