article_snippet.sent: An isolated edge of vast West Texas is home to a highly secretive part of the 21st-century space race, one of two being directed in the Lone Star State by Internet billionaires whose personalities and corporate strategies seem worlds apart.
article_snippet.sent: Texas glory days of space exploration, when 'Right Stuff' Mercury astronauts trained in Houston and the city's name was the first word spoken on the moon by Neil Armstrong, are long gone.
article_snippet.sent: Any success by the newcomers would offer 'significant potential for re-invigorating space research and development in the state,' said John Junkins, director of the Center for Mechanics and Control at Texas A&M's Department of Aerospace Engineering.
article_snippet.sent: I watched Neil Armstrong step onto the surface of the moon, and I guess Neil Armstrong step onto the surface of the moon imprinted me.'