John C Stennis Space Center
The John C. Stennis Space Center is a NASA rocket testing facility in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States, on the banks of the Pearl River at the Mississippi–Louisiana border.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Reserve
- Description: rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center
- Also known as: “John C. Stennis Space Center”, “Mississippi Test Facility”, “Mississippi Test Operations”, “NASA SSC”, “National Space Technology Laboratories”, “SSC”, and “Stennis Space Center”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gainesville.
Gainesville
Locality
Gainesville is a ghost town located in Hancock County, Mississippi, near the border of Louisiana. Formerly a thriving port on the Pearl River, the town underwent marked decline due to the emergence of railways in the mid-19th century. Gainesville is situated 3 miles southwest of John C Stennis Space Center.
John C Stennis Space Center
- Categories: NASA facility, test facility, space center, and unincorporated community in the United States
- Location: Hancock, Mississippi, South, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“John C Stennis Space Center” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “斯坦尼斯太空中心”
- Chinese: “斯坦尼斯航天中心”
- Danish: “John C. Stennis Space Center”
- Dutch: “John C. Stennis Space Center”
- Esperanto: “John C. Stennis Space Center”
- Finnish: “John C. Stennis Space Center”
- Finnish: “Stennis Space Center”
- French: “Centre spatial John C. Stennis”
- French: “John C. Stennis Space Center”
- French: “Mississipi Test Facility”
- French: “National Space Technology Laboratories”
- French: “Stennis Space Center”
- German: “John C. Stennis Space Center”
- Hebrew: “מרכז החלל סטניס”
- Indonesian: “John C. Stennis Space Center”
- Italian: “John C. Stennis Space Center”
- Japanese: “ジョン・C・ステニス宇宙センター”
- Malay: “Pusat Angkasa John C. Stennis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “John C. Stennis Space Center”
- Persian: “مرکز فضایی جان سی. استنیس”
- Polish: “John C. Stennis Space Center”
- Portuguese: “Centro Espacial John C. Stennis”
- Portuguese: “John C. Stennis Space Center”
- Romanian: “John C. Stennis Space Center”
- Russian: “Космический центр им. Стенниса”
- Russian: “Космический центр имени Джона Стенниса”
- Spanish: “Centro espacial John C Stennis”
- Spanish: “Centro espacial John C. Stennis”
- Spanish: “John C Stennis Space Center”
- Spanish: “John C. Stennis Space Center”
- Turkish: “John C. Stennis Uzay Merkezi”
- Ukrainian: “Космічний центр імені Джона Стенніса”
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