Revenge of the Starkiller

The Houston Space Center was a little bit disapointing. It was expensive and my trolly tour of Mission Control was canelled due to extreme weather. The rest of the center is more of a day-care than anything else but it did have an exhibit called, "The Cinema of George Lucas". On display was the first hand-written draft of Star Wars along with one of the first drafts of the screenplay. I read the pages and the notes. They are quite different than the final version and it was amazing to see that. The names of the films were different too, "Adventures of the Star Killer" and "Revenge of the Jedi". I am surprised that they still used chalk slates in the 1980's!

Also on display was the lunar lander and the actual space-suits that they used while on the moon. Unless of course you believed they faked it all. I think they really did land there but that some of the photos and film footage are fake. The radiation levels in space are unbelievable. Film is very fragile. I just don't see how it could survive in that environment. Anyways ...

I touched a moon rock. It felt like a black piece of granite bathroom tile.