Stennis Space Center HistoryHancock County, Miss., residents Lollie Bell Wright, Logtown Postmaster, and Roy Baxter, owner of the Post Office, lower the flag...Construction workers bring down a tree during the early days of construction for NASA Stennis Space Center. Tree-cutting on what...John Hillman (Fortune's executive assistant) with NAA officials. John C. Cox, NAA resident manager, is second from the right. They...An aerial view shows early construction of the Mississippi Test Operations in 1963. The waterway shown is the first leg...An enormous crater marks the site where the A-2 test stand was being built in 1964 at the Mississippi Test...Construction crews install steel reinforcing rods at the base of what became the A-2 test stand. The excavation for the...Construction of the A-2 test stand nears completion in April 1965.Dick Hogue (right) checks on early liquid hydrogen work in 1965 at the Mississippi Test Facility (now John C. Stennis...The first stage of the Saturn V rocket awaits testing in the B test stand at the Mississippi Test Facility,...The first Saturn V rocket booster (S-II-T) is tested at the Mississippi Test Facility.A Saturn V first stage is transported by barge down the East Pearl River on its way from Stennis Space...The Saturn V S-IC-15 rocket stage arrived at Stennis Space Center on June 16, 2016, for transport to the INFINITY...The first stage of the huge Saturn V rocket is lifted by crane for installation into the B-2 stand at...The bright moon in a clear sky over the Mississippi Test Facility, now Stennis Space Center, awaits the arrival of...NASA conducts the first test of the Saturn V S-IC-5 rocket stage on the B-2 Test Stand at Stennis Space...The arrival by barge of the first flight stage (S-II-1), the second stage for the first Saturn V launch vehicle...Ground crews hoist an S-II second stage into the A-2 test stand at MTF.The Saturn V S-II (second) stage is hoisted at the S-II-A2 test stand at the Mississippi Test Facility (MTF). When...Workers at the Mississippi Test Facility conducted cryogenic testing of the Saturn V second stage, S-II-4 in 1968This photograph shows a test firing of the Saturn V S-II (second) stage at the Mississippi Test Facility's (MTF) S-II...Global Associates employee Andy Anderson (l) and a colleague make repairs to a motor control center at the Mississippi Test...Eleven months after the Mississippi Test Operations became the National Space Technology Laboratories, the first static test-firing of the space...Earth Resources Laboratory Applications Software (ELAS) is developed at NSTL and implemented worldwide, March 1978. (Alabama native Ronnie Pearson, a...In June 1979, NASA Administrator Robert A. Frosch, left, and astronaut candidates Sally K. Ride and Terry J. Hart examine...A 1979 photo offers a close-up view of a space shuttle main propulsion test article (MPTA) hot fire on the...A dedication ceremony is held to open the Mississippi Technology Transfer Center at NSTL. Mississippi Gov. Bill Allain signs the...A cloud of extremely hot steam boils out of the flame deflector at the A-1 test stand during a test...NSTL renamed John C. Stennis Space Center by executive order of President Ronald Reagan. (20 May 1988)Stennis Space Center employees prepared a space shuttle main engine for transport to Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 4, 2004....The B-1/B-2 Test Stand is a dual-position, vertical, static-firing structure built at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in the...NASA conducts the final test of a space shuttle main engine on the A-2 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center...A February 2011 photo shows the redesigned entrance to the Roy S. Estess Building at Stennis Space Center, the main...Engine No. 2059 is placed on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center in 2015.The RS-25 engine that will drive NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System, to deep space blazed through its first...
