A-2 Test Stand Under Construction

An enormous crater marks the site where the A-2 test stand was being built in 1964 at the Mississippi Test Operations site. A 1964 aerial view shows early work to construct the A-2 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center, then-Mississippi Test Operations. The dark rim of mud around the excavation is the remains of a riverbed, which some geologists believe was the ancient path of the Mississippi River.