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Stennis Accomplishments Highlighted In NASA Spinoff Publication

As part of its 50th anniversary celebration, NASA recently selected its top 50 “spinoff” technologies developed as a result of the space program.
Wiggins Native Focused On Future At Stennis Space Center

Preparation for Vince Pachel’s career as a mechanical engineer at NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center began early through a father who sparked – and nurtured – his son’s interest in the field.
Mississippi Native Helping Prepare Stennis For Key Test Program

Looking back, it is easy to see how Thomas “Tommy” Carroll became a systems engineer at NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center.

Stennis Space Center

State-of-the-art test facilities at NASA John C. Stennis Space Center include the A, B and E complexes, designed for rocket propulsion testing from component to engine to stage-level. Since 1975, the center’s primary mission has been to test the main engines that propel the space shuttle during its 8 ½ -minute ascent to orbit.
Rocket Propulsion Testing

Under NASA Stennis Space Center’s Engineering and Science Directorate, rocket engine propulsion test activities are conducted on one-of-a-kind national test facilities collectively valued at more than $2 billion. SSC is America’s largest rocket engine test complex and is surrounded by a 125,000-acre acoustical buffer zone, which is considered a national asset.
Applied Research and Technology Project Office

NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center Applied Sciences Program works with other federal agencies and research organizations to extend NASA’s Earth-Sun science research into societal benefit.