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By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
March 28, 2005

Students Invited to Learn How to Engineer Spaceships at NASA JSC

“Visit the Web for more information and directions to Space Center Houston at: http://education.jsc.nasa.gov/details.cfm?id=F7665F18-AC33-430C-A15249BB3EC6A091

Editor’s note: Wow. This reminds me of the serial number you have to enter more than once slowly when you install a Microsoft product. Why not use a more human-friendly URL such as http://education.jsc.nasa.gov/directions ? I wonder if goofy and needlessly complicated web addresses are covered in the new NASA Communication Material Review Process? Nah. They are more concerned with specifying fonts and convoluted approval processes, it would seem.

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.