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Creation Date
10-20-2009
Description
In 1961, NASA selected a 13,500 acre spot bordering the Pearl River in Hancock County for its new rocket testing facility. The isolated location along navigable waters would permit barges to transport large rocket motors between the Michoud Assembly plant in New Orleans and the Kennedy Space Center launch site in Florida. NASA renamed the Mississippi Test Facility as the John C. Stennis Space Center in 1988 in honor of space program advocate U.S. Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi.
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