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The John C. Stennis Space Center is a NASA rocket testing facility in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States, on the banks of the Pearl River at the Mississippi–Louisiana border. As of 2012, it is
The B-1/B-2 Test Stand holding Space Shuttle components (1987)
Static Test Firing S-1C Saturn V Mississippi Test Facility MTF
An aerial photo shows all three NASA Stennis Space Center (SSC) test complexes - the E Test Complex (foreground), the three A Test Complex stands (middle) and the B Test Complex (back).
A-1 test stand(foreground), A-2 (mid-ground) and B1/B2 (background)
John C. Stennis
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John Cornelius Stennis was an American politician who served as a U.S. senator from the state of Mississippi. He was a Democrat who served in the Senate for over 41 years, becoming its most senior mem
Stennis Space Center
…National Space Technology Laboratories, a name that continued until May 20, 1988, when it was renamed for Mississippi senator and space program supporter John C. Stennis. With the end of the Apollo and Shuttle programs, use of the base decreased, with economic impact to the surrounding communities. Over the years, other…
Stennis in 1984
Stennis being sworn into the U.S. Senate by Arthur Vandenberg, 1947. James Eastland, Mississippi's other Senator, stands behind Stennis.
Stennis celebrating a space shuttle engine test in 1978
Paul Laxalt, Mark Hatfield, and Stennis before a conference on the Emergency Jobs Act of 1983