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.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Research institute
- Description: rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center
- Also known as: “Centre spatial John C. Stennis”, “Centro espacial John C Stennis”, “John C Stennis Space Center”, “John C. Stennis Space Center”, “Mississipi Test Facility”, “Mississippi Test Facility”, “Mississippi Test Operations”, “NASA SSC”, “NASA Stennis”, “National Space Technology Laboratories”, “SSC”, and “Космический центр им. Стенниса”
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 Stennis Space Center.
Stennis Space Center
- Categories: NASA facility, space center, test facility, unincorporated community, industry, and education
- Location: Hancock, Mississippi, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
30.37878° or 30° 22′ 44″ north
Longitude
-89.6035° or 89° 36′ 13″ west
Named after
Open location code
862G99HW+GJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=research_institute
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrial
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“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”
- French: “Centre spatial Stennis”
- French: “John C. 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 имени Джона Стенниса”
- Spanish: “Centro espacial John C. Stennis”
- Turkish: “John C. Stennis Uzay Merkezi”
- Ukrainian: “Космічний центр імені Джона Стенніса”
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