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A-3 Test Stand to Mark Several Construction Milestones in 2010
The A-3 Test Stand being built to test the next generation of rocket engines at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center will mark several construction milestones in 2010.
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Stennis in 2009 – A Convergence of Past, Present and Future
For NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center, 2009 marked a convergence of the past, present and future of American space exploration as the rocket engine testing facility celebrated a key anniversary, marked the end of a decades-long testing project and focused squarely on enabling humans to explore space objects beyond low-Earth orbit.
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Stennis Employee Named NASA Procurement Person of the Year
NASA has recognized John C. Stennis Space Center employee Jason Edge of Perkinston as Procurement Person of the Year through the agency's Small Business Advocates Awards Program.
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NASA Honors Biloxi's Apollo Astronaut Fred Haise with Moon Rocks
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden presented Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise, Jr., with the agency's Ambassador of Exploration Award on Dec. 2, honoring a career that included one of space exploration's most-dramatic chapters.
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Stennis Recognizes STS-129 Space Flight Awareness Honorees
Fourteen employees of NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center recently were honored by NASA's Space Flight Awareness program for their dedication to quality work and flight safety.
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NASA Selects Small Business High-Tech Projects for Development
NASA has selected for development 368 small business innovation projects that include research to minimize aging of aircraft, new techniques for suppressing fires on spacecraft and advanced transmitters for deep space communications.
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NASA Teams with Mississippi High Schools to Create Space Hardware
NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center announced plans Nov. 9 to team with students at four Mississippi high schools to develop prototype hardware for the next-generation rockets being built to carry humans beyond low-Earth orbit.
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Stennis Employees Receive Silver Snoopys
Astronaut Dominic Gorie honored 12 employees of NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis on Oct. 22 during a special Silver Snoopy awards ceremony held in conjunction with the Stennis Health and Safety Day.
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Meridian Community College Names Scholarship for Stennis Director
Meridian Community College in Meridian recently announced an engineering scholarship has been established in honor of alumnus Gene Goldman, director of NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County.
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Stennis Space Center Certified as Project Ready Technology Park
NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center has become the first site to earn certification in the new technology park category of the Project Ready Certified Site Program, an industrial site program formalized by Mississippi Power's economic development department earlier this year to attract new industries to Southeast Mississippi.
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Stennis All-Hazards Network Being Adopted Throughout NASA
It has been called "the wave of the future" – and now, the "all-hazards network" system (HazNet) developed through the Innovative Partnership Program at NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center, is being implemented across the space agency.
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NASA Stennis Engineer Sees Her Work Crash – And Likes It
Most of us would not get a thrill out of seeing our hard work crash, but Karma Snyder – a project manager at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center – was anxious to see the rocket engine she helped design smash into the moon during the wee hours of Oct. 9.
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NASA Selects Small Business Technology Transfer Projects
NASA has selected 152 proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards in the Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR).
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A-3 Test Stand Construction Moves Forward with Tank Installations
Construction of the A-3 Test Stand at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center is approaching another milestone with delivery and installation of 14 water, isopropyl alcohol (IPA) and liquid oxygen (LOX) tanks.
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NASA'S LCROSS Satellite to Impact the Moon Oct. 9
NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) is scheduled to strike a permanently-shadowed crater on the moon’s south pole Oct. 9 at 6:30 a.m., CDT.
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I-10 Closures Scheduled This Week Near NASA Stennis
The westbound lane of Interstate 10 will be closed from Exit 2 to Exit 13 starting between 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23, and Thursday, Sept. 24, and will remain closed for approximately 40 minutes to allow transport of large storage tanks to NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center.
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I-10 Closures Begin Tuesday
The westbound lane of Interstate 10 will be closed from Exit 2 to Exit 13 for approximately 40 minutes on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, beginning at 9:30 a.m. each day.
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Endeavour Crew Visits NASA's Stennis Space Center
Members of the STS-127 shuttle mission visited Stennis Space Center on Sept. 10 to share with site employees details of their July visit to the International Space Station.
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Shuttle Discovery Could Create Sonic Booms Along Coast
If space shuttle Discovery is unable to land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its first attempt this evening, residents along the Mississippi Gulf Coast should hear a double sonic boom about 7:25 p.m. as the vehicle makes its second landing approach to the site.
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Industry Day to Highlight Contracting Opportunities at NASA Stennis
Industry Day will be held Sept. 2 at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center to inform contractors and small businesses about upcoming contracting opportunities at Stennis Space Center.