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In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

  
  Stennis Space Center (SSC)
One of ten NASA field centers in the United States.
Located in Hancock County, in southwest Mississippi, about 80 km east of New Orleans, Louisiana, the John C. Stennis Space Center is the primary center for testing and flight certifying rocket propulsion systems for the Space Shuttle and future generations of space vehicles.
Stennis is also NASA’s lead center for commercial remote sensing within the Mission to Planet Earth Enterprise.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/S/Stennis.html   (187 words)

  
 John C. Stennis Space Center @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John C. Stennis Space Center in the News
Each of the engines that sent men to the moon in the late 1960s were tested here; not a single one failed during the course of these Apollo missions.
In the period of the Space Shuttle program the stands were used to provide flight certification for the Space Shuttle Main Engine.
www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/John_C._Stennis_Space_Center   (710 words)

  
 ...all these worlds...
Stennis Space Center, which played a vital role in sending men to the Moon, is also ignored.
You know, I'm enough of a space and science fiction buff to think that it's really, really cool that scientists are experimenting with antimatter just half a mile from where I work, but I've also seen enough starships explode for it to make me a little nervous.
Robonaut has gone mobile in recent tests which have equiped the android with a "space leg" that would let it maneuver around outside the Space Station, and in other tests in which the robot torso was placed atop a Segway scooter.
www.hatbag.net /2004_08_01_archive.html   (6725 words)

  
 Reviews - Space Sciences
Space Activities and Cooperation Contributing to All Pacific Basin Countries.
Space Development and Cooperation Among All Pacific Basin Countries.
Kosmos, A Portrait of the Russian Space Age.
www.amazings.com /sbb/spacesciences.html   (1527 words)

  
 Clean Air With Aloe
The majority of the research examining plants as natural air cleaners comes from Dr. Bill Wolverton and fellow scientists at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in the early 1990s.
NASA has been concerned about the long-term environmental health consequences of off-gassing from the hundreds of chemical compounds found on shuttles and space stations.
A two-year study was conducted which involved plexiglass chambers containing a variety of plants into which different pollutants were introduced and measured.
www.aloevera11.com /cleaner_air_with_aloe.htm   (266 words)

  
 WWW Space Links
Spacelink - An Aeronautics and Space Resource for Educators
Space Launch Vehicles - all of the world
Trench 2000: Space Exploration Site by Roger Balettie
www.braeunig.us /space/links.htm   (94 words)

  
 Space Page Titles @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
TMA-9 spaceship commander Mikhail Tyurin and flight engineer, NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, applauded the first ever female space tourist Anousheh...
Directory: Games: Video Games: Action: Space Combat: Elite Series: F
Directory: Science: Technology: Space: Missions: Manned: United States: Apollo
www.launchbase.net /toc/Space   (380 words)

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