John C. Stennis Space Center
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N 30° 20.413 W 089° 36.793
16R E 248782 N 3359380
On Highway 607, south of the Stennis Gate, at the turn to Napoleon.
Waymark Code: WMT7M5
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 10/09/2016
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In 1961 President John F. Kennedy announced plans to send humans to the moon. NASA selected this site for an engine testing facility for the Apollo Moon program. During its construction in 1963, nearly 6,100 workers began building three 200-foot-tall test stands. This 13,800-acre federal city, the largest rocket engine testing facility un the United States, is surrounded by a 125,000-acre buffer zone. The Stennis Space Center tested the main engines for each of the 135 space shuttle missions.
Date Installed:: October 25, 2011
Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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