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That was a good point...universities can give a city lots of recognition both nationally and abroad. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be aware of South Bend IN if Notre Dame weren't located there.
I might need to elevate Austin a little from my initial list.
I know Lubbock would be a speck on the map if it wasn't for Texas Tech and College Station would be non existent if it wasn't for Texas A&M.
That's where I was born and now I live just up the street! Saw the retired CEO Boone Powell at my high school on Tuesday. He graduated 20 something years earlier than I.
Baylor also now has a light rail station (DART) and is getting a new $350 million addition:
Actually, you also have to remember that Mission Control Center is in Houston; which manages all space flights of NASA. Houston is referenced in lots of scifi or disastor movies that deal with space or natural disasters. This is the most important sector of NASA; It's only headquartered in DC. Just like Exxon Mobil is headquartered in DFW.
Most people aren't going to think NASA is just in Florida. People are going to think either Florida or Texas.
Just to clarify, only MANNED space flights by NASA are run in Houston and operations with the Space Station. Unmanned robotic space flights are run by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Sample of projects managed by the JPL command center currently:
1. Cassini-Huygens exploring Saturn and its moons right now
2. Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER) with the Spirit and Opportunity robots.
3. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter studing Mars in orbit.
4. Spitzer Space Telescope
The JPL campus s 5,000 employees too compared to 3,200 at Houston's campus. As the manned space program begins to shut down with the end of the shuttle program to focus on unmanned space exploraton, JPL will be the main NASA campus as it currently leads the unmanned mission control center.
Part of JPL Mission Control for Unmanned Space Operations:
That's where I was born and now I live just up the street! Saw the retired CEO Boone Powell at my high school on Tuesday. He graduated 20 something years earlier than I.
Baylor also now has a light rail station (DART) and is getting a new $350 million addition:
Dallas = was a major city when Houston wasn't so it has Tradition plus JFK, TV show, Neiman Marcus
Houston = Astrodome, Space center
The other towns don't rate.
From a non Texan
I may be mistaken but I do not believe that Baylor University has any affiliation with Baylor Medical center. I could be very very wrong.
I think it does actually...the name of it is Baylor University Medical Center.
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