A-2 Test Stand RetrospectiveThe A-2 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, has a storied history stretching more...After NASA announced plans to build a propulsion test site in south Mississippi, the hard work of constructing the new...Construction of the A-2 Test Stand at NASA Stennis required digging down some 50 feet with steel beams driven another...By early 1965, the A-2 Test Stand at NASA Stennis was beginning to rise into the sky to eventual stand...In late summer 1967, the A-2 Test Stand at NASA Stennis was taking definite shape. In fact, the first propulsion...By October 1965, a prototype Saturn II rocket stage had arrived at NASA Stennis for installation on the A-2 Test...The first propulsion test at NASA Stennis was conducted on the A-2 Test Stand on April 23, 1966. It lasted...NASA tested the Saturn V S-II-2 rocket stage on the A-2 Test Stand at NASA Stennis on April 6, 1967....Crews lift the Saturn V S-II-4 stage onto the A-2 Test Stand at NASA Stennis in November 1967. Following a...Following the end of the Apollo Program, the A-2 Test Stand was modified to support testing of space shuttle main...During the space shuttle era, the A-2 Test Stand hosted several significant milestone hot fires. One of the most notable...Space shuttle main engine testing at NASA Stennis concluded with a final hot fire on the A-2 Test Stand on...Space shuttle main engine No. 0525 is transported from the A-2 Test Stand on Aug. 17, 2009. NASA conducted its...A J-2X rocket engine is delivered to the A-2 Test Sand at NASA Stennis on June 10, 2011. Following the...Operators conduct an initial hot fire test of a next-generation J-2X engine on the A-2 Test Stand at Stennis Space...Darkness offers a vivid view of a next-generation J-2X engine test on the A-1 Test Stand at NASA Stennis on...The steam cloud from a J-2X engine test on Jan. 15, 2014, drifts back across the A-2 Test Stand at...