houston got johnson space center thanks to linden baines johnson. kennedy space center was created in the kennedy era. huntsville was created when the world war ii groups came over from that's in huntsville where heavy rocket development is underway. i think from the get-go they decided to spread the facilities around the country. host: are any other countries operating independently as far as a space program goes right now? guest: well, we have international cooperation onto space station. i think nasa hopes that will blossom into further cooperation on deep space exploration, but we also have china, india, you know, a lot of other countries trying to develop manned space programs and many people expect a chinese astronaut to be walking on the moon in the next ten years. there won't be any americans up there to welcome them, which i think a lot of people would like to see, but there are other countries looking at unilateral space efforts as well. host: our next call comes from tom in florida. hi, tom. caller: hey, how are you doing? host: good. cal