Stennis Space Center

The John C. Stennis Space Center is NASA's largest rocket engine test facility, on the banks of the Pearl River in Hancock County, Mississippi, between the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA established the site in 1961, originally as the Mississippi Test Facility, and renamed it in 1988 to honor Senator John C. Stennis. The center conducts static firing tests of rocket engines and stages, historically testing Saturn V components for the Apollo program and Space Shuttle main engines, and today more than fifty other government, commercial and academic organizations also use its testing facilities for rocket engine development. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/