Although it is sometimes called a town without a history, Houston actually possesses the kind of sprawling past that includes a frontier port, a moon landing and a supermarket that contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union. In fact, there is so much his
Mark Lardas--a sometime engineer, freelance writer, historian and model maker--has lived in the Houston area for forty years. He is currently employed as a technical writer and spends his spare time collecting offbeat stories about Houston history. He worked on the Space Shuttle program as a navigator and engineer from 1979 until 2011.