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BumRushDaShow

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21. I loved the movie!

Reply to LeftInTX (Reply #20)

Sat Aug 9, 2025, 05:22 AM

Aug 9

In fact, I was on a work trip to your fair state the year that movie came out and the Friday afternoon after we were done, I got to go visit the Johnson Space Center & Museum and they had video screens scattered around the exhibits showing scenes from the film (and they were also showing previews of the movie "Twister", which would come out the following year). Didn't get chance to go into Mission Control because a Space Shuttle was actually deployed the week we were there, so they closed it to visitors.

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