part due to the pork barrel politics that had seen congressmen jostling to bring a part of the lunar bonanza into their districts, NASA facilities had ended up being constructed at sites scattered across the country in a network of semiautonomous “centers”: it was no coincidence that the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, soon to be renamed in Johnson’s honor, had found a home not only in the President’s home state, but close to the districts of the handful of local politicians with seats on key congressional committees.
