Stennis Space Center (SSC)
One of ten NASA field centers in the United
States. Located in Hancock County, in southwest Mississippi, about 80 km
east of New Orleans, Louisiana, the John C. Stennis Space Center is the
primary center for testing and flight certifying rocket propulsion systems
for the Space Shuttle and future generations
of space vehicles. All Space Shuttle Main Engines must pass a series of
test firings at Stennis Space Center prior to being installed in the back
of the Orbiter. Stennis is also NASA's lead center for commercial remote
sensing within the Mission to Planet Earth Enterprise. It was previously
called the Mississippi Test Facility and used as the static test site for
Saturn and Nova-class
launch vehicles.
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