ssc 50th anniversary presentation
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celebrating years of powering dreams! 50John C. Stennis Space Center
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October 25, 1961NASA announced plans to open a rocket engine test facility in Hancock County, MS.
May 17, 1963First tree cutting
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Weston Lumber Company
Logtown, Mississippi
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Gainesville Locomotive
Gainesville, Mississippi
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Santa Rosa
Aaron Academy
Santa Rosa, Mississippi
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Napoleon Baptist Church
Napoleon, Mississippi
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Westonia School
Westonia, Mississippi
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“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
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Test Stand Construction
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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
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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
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Apollo ProgramJ-2 Engine Testing
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Shuttle ProgramSSME Testing
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•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
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AJ26 Engine Test
Commercial Testing ProgramPratt & Whitney Rocketdyne & Orbital Sciences Corportation
RS-68 Engine Test
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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
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