celebrating years of powering dreams! 50John C. Stennis Space Center

October 25, 1961NASA announced plans to open a rocket engine test facility in Hancock County, MS.

May 17, 1963First tree cutting

Weston Lumber Company

Logtown, Mississippi

Gainesville Locomotive

Gainesville, Mississippi

Santa Rosa

Aaron Academy

Santa Rosa, Mississippi

Napoleon Baptist Church

Napoleon, Mississippi

Westonia School

Westonia, Mississippi

“I don’t know yet what method we will use to get to

the moon, but I do know that we will

go through Mississippi to get

there!”Dr. Wernher von Braun

Test Stand Construction

A Unique Federal City

• NASA– John C. Stennis Space Center*

• 278 NASA civil servants• 1415 NASA contractors

– NASA Shared Services Center*• The NSSC is located on site with 520 employees• 134 NASA civil servants• 386 NSSC contractors

• NAVY– Commander, Naval Meteorology & Oceanography Command– Naval Oceanographic Office– Naval Research Laboratory– Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical School– Navy Special Boat Team 22– Navy Human Resources Service Center Southeast

• More than 30 major federal, state, academic and private organizations– More than 60 technology-based companies

* Employee numbers are approximate

More than 5,300 NASA, contractor and resident agency employees

Resident Agencies at Stennis Space Center

Department of Interior• U.S. Geological Survey, Hydrologic

Instrumentation Facility

State of Louisiana• Louisiana

Technology Transfer Office, Louisiana Business & Technology Center/LSU

Mississippi State University• Northern Gulf Institute

Department of Defense• Commander, Naval Meteorology &

Oceanography Command• Naval Oceanographic Office• Naval Research Laboratory• Naval Small Craft Instruction and

Technical Training School• Navy Special Boat Team 22• Navy Human Resources Service

Center Southeast

Department of Commerce• NOAA, NWS, National Data Buoy

Center • NOAA National Marine Fisheries

Service• NOAA National Coastal Data

Development Center

EnvironmentalProtection Agency• Environmental Chemistry

Laboratory• Gulf of Mexico Program

Commercial Companies• Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne• Lockheed Martin IS & GS

Defense Systems• Rolls Royce North America

Major Contractors• Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne• Jacobs Technology Inc. –

Facilities Operations• Lockheed Martin IS & GS –

Civil - Test Operations Contract

• A2 Research• ASRC Research and Technology

Solutions (ARTS)• Paragon Systems Inc.• Science Applications

International Corporation• Science Systems and

Applications Inc.Center for Higher Learning• Mississippi State University• University of Southern

Mississippi• University of Mississippi• University of New Orleans• Pearl River Community

College

University of SouthernMississippi - College of Science and Technology• Dept. of Marine Science•

State of Mississippi• Mississippi Enterprise

for Technology• Enterprise for

Innovative Geospatial Solutions

Department of Energy• Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Apollo ProgramJ-2 Engine Testing

Shuttle ProgramSSME Testing

•300 feet tall

•Open steel frame structure

•19-acre site

•Can withstand up to 1 million pounds of thrust

•Able to simulate altitudes up to 100,000 feet by generating steam to create a vacuum

A-3 Test Stand

AJ26 Engine Test

Commercial Testing ProgramPratt & Whitney Rocketdyne & Orbital Sciences Corportation

RS-68 Engine Test

Responsibilities include

• Management of the Gulf of Mexico Initiative for NASA Headquarters

• Federal co-lead of the Gulf of Mexico Alliance, a regional collaboration of the 5 US Gulf states and 13 federal agencies

• Conducting scientific research that addresses the needs of the Gulf of Mexico region

Applied Science & Technology Project Office

ASTPO