NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center is expanding its partnership with an aerospace manufacturing company to construct a massive rocket testing facility on 150 acres of the facility's land near Bay St.

NASA has been conducting a series of hot fire tests to certify RS-25 engines for use on the Space Launch System rockets that ...

Participants in the ribbon-cutting ceremony were (left to right): Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell, U.S. Rep. Steven ...

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (WGNO) — “I don’t know yet what method we will use to get to the Moon, but I do know that we have to go through Mississippi to get there!” These were the words of rocket scientist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five decades after it began testing rockets deep in South Mississippi’s woods, the Stennis Space Center and sites like it around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 22—As the new year begins, seven of the nine test stands at Stennis are being used for testing. Four stands are being ...

An Aeon 1 engine undergoes test at a Stennis Space Center test stand. Relativity is taking over another test complex at Stennis to support development of its Terran small launch vehicle. Credit: ...

SPENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (WLOX) - Stennis Space Center Director Dr. Rick Gilbrech says ever since NASA’s announcement last month that the South Mississippi site will test the first Space Launch ...

In April 1966, Lyndon Johnson was president of the United States, protests of the Vietnam War were growing, gas was priced at 32 cents per gallon, “(You’re My) Soul and Inspiration,” was the No. 1 ...

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Stennis, Miss., unveiled an initiative today to chart the future of the nation’s premier rocket engine testing facility. Stennis Director Gene ...

The complex located at the Center’s A-3 Test Stand will be used to develop and test the Archimedes reusable engines, fast-tracking Rocket Lab’s development of the Neutron launch vehicle. STENNIS SPACE ...

Officials at the Stennis Space Center say the facility is on the front lines of future space exploration efforts. NASA recently conducted its first test of the RS-25 rocket engine at the center. RS-25 ...