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Come out and see us at the Picayune Street Fair today and tomorrow!
11/02/2024

Come out and see us at the Picayune Street Fair today and tomorrow!

NASA Stennis proudly observes   this November. Join us as we celebrate the traditions and stories of Native American, Al...
11/01/2024

NASA Stennis proudly observes this November. Join us as we celebrate the traditions and stories of Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders and honor their contributions to the NASA mission. https://go.nasa.gov/3YN9bse

NASA Stennis representatives are inspiring the   at the NAS Pensacola Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show Nov. 1 and 2, afte...
11/01/2024

NASA Stennis representatives are inspiring the at the NAS Pensacola Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show Nov. 1 and 2, after kicking off their arrival by providing STEM engagement activities on-site Oct. 31. NASA's exhibit honors the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing and showcases the agency’s mission to inspire the world through discovery.

10/31/2024

The NASA meatball and NASA worm pumpkins have been making their way around NASA's Johnson Space Center. Which do you prefer? 🎃

A contract employee paints the NASA “meatball” logo on the B-2 Test Stand on Oct. 31, 2014. The new meatball was part of...
10/31/2024

A contract employee paints the NASA “meatball” logo on the B-2 Test Stand on Oct. 31, 2014. The new meatball was part of the overall modification of the B-2 Test Stand in preparation for testing the core stage of NASA's powerful SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The NASA meatball dates back to 1959 and the formation of NASA. After an official seal was chosen for the new agency, NASA employee James Modarelli was asked to design a logo that could be used for less formal purposes. Known officially as the insignia, NASA's round logo was not called the “meatball” until 1975.

Take your pumpkin carving creativity into orbit with NASA-themed templates and stencils! 🎃
10/30/2024

Take your pumpkin carving creativity into orbit with NASA-themed templates and stencils! 🎃

Carve a pumpkin like a NASA engineer, and discover mysterious locations throughout the solar system and beyond.

10/30/2024

Like staring at the clouds? Love the planet Mars? How about staring at the clouds…on Mars? Now you can join Cloudspotting on Mars: Shapes, a new NASA citizen science project, and help identify beautiful cloud formations on the Red Planet. Mars has kinds of clouds you may not have seen before, su...

Here we grow! 🌳 A tree-planting ceremony at NASA Stennis on Oct. 29 celebrated NASA's successful Artemis I mission as th...
10/29/2024

Here we grow! 🌳 A tree-planting ceremony at NASA Stennis on Oct. 29 celebrated NASA's successful Artemis I mission as the agency prepares for a return around the Moon with astronauts on Artemis II.

NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement Next Gen STEM Project partnered with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service to fly five species of tree seeds aboard NASA’s Orion Spacecraft during the successful uncrewed Artemis I test flight in 2022 as part of a national STEM Engagement and conservation education initiative.

The Artemis Moon Tree species included sweetgums, loblolly pines, sycamores, Douglas-firs, and giant sequoias. The seeds from the first mission have been nurtured by the USDA into seedlings to be a source of inspiration for the .

The Moon Tree education initiative is rooted in the legacy of Apollo 14 Moon Tree seeds flown in lunar orbit over 50 years ago by the late Stuart Roosa, a NASA astronaut and Mississippi Coast resident.

NASA Stennis and the NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC), located at the site, planted companion trees during the ceremony. NASA Stennis Director John Bailey and NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) Executive Director Anita Harrell participated in a joint planting ceremony attended by a number of employees from each entity.

The American sweetgum trees are the second and third Moon Trees at NASA Stennis. In 2004, ASTRO Camp participants planted a sycamore Moon Tree to honor the 35th anniversary of Apollo 11 and the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969.

The road to space for both Apollo 14 and Artemis I went through Mississippi. Until 1970, NASA Stennis test fired first and second stages of the Saturn V rockets used for Apollo.

NASA Stennis now tests all the RS-25 engines powering Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. Prior to Artemis I, NASA Stennis tested the SLS (Space Launch System) core stage and its four RS-25 engines.

The Artemis Moon Trees have found new homes in over 150 communities and counting since last spring, and each of the 10 NASA centers also will plant one.

As the tree grows at NASA Stennis, so, too, does anticipation for the first crewed mission with Artemis II. Four astronauts will venture around the Moon on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration.

The flight will test NASA’s foundational human deep space exploration capabilities – the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft – for the first time with astronauts.

10/29/2024

“Science will never be the same.” ✨🔬 Gateway is set to advance science in deep space, bringing groundbreaking research opportunities to lunar orbit. Stephanie Dudley, Gateway's mission integration and utilization manager, shares how the lunar space station will support NASA Artemis exploration and discovery: https://go.nasa.gov/3A8FCrM

10/28/2024
NASA Stennis achieved a key milestone this week for testing a new SLS (Space Launch System) rocket stage to fly on futur...
10/25/2024

NASA Stennis achieved a key milestone this week for testing a new SLS (Space Launch System) rocket stage to fly on future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond.

Over a two-week period beginning Oct. 10, crews completed a safe lift and installation of the 103-ton interstage simulator component needed for future testing of NASA’s exploration upper stage (EUS) in the B-2 position of the Thad Cochran Test Stand. The component will function like the SLS interstage section that helps protect the upper stage during Artemis launches.

The EUS unit, built by Boeing at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, which will be the upper stage for the evolved Block 1B version of SLS and will enable NASA to launch its most ambitious deep space missions. The new stage will replace the current interim cryogenic propulsion stage on the Block 1 version of SLS, which features a single engine and is capable of lifting 27 tons of crew and cargo to lunar orbit.

The new exploration upper stage will be powered by four RL10 engines providing more than 97,000 pounds of combined thrust, manufactured by SLS engines contractor L3Harris Technologies. It will increase payload capacity by 40%, enabling NASA to send 38 tons of cargo with a crew to the Moon or 42 tons of cargo without a crew.

Watch a clip of the lift and learn more about the EUS at:

NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, achieved a key milestone this week for testing a new SLS (Space Launch System) rocket stage to fly on future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond.

NASA Stennis is celebrating its 63rd anniversary as America’s largest – and NASA’s premier – rocket propulsion test site...
10/25/2024

NASA Stennis is celebrating its 63rd anniversary as America’s largest – and NASA’s premier – rocket propulsion test site. In our latest feature, NASA Stennis Engineering & Test Directorate Director Joe Schuyler commemorates this milestone.

Space benefits us all, and Mississippi is the gateway to get there! 🚀 Statewide in FY2023, NASA: ✅ Supported 4,281 jobs ...
10/24/2024

Space benefits us all, and Mississippi is the gateway to get there! 🚀

Statewide in FY2023, NASA:
✅ Supported 4,281 jobs
✅ Produced $854.4 million in economic output
✅ Generated $32.4 million in state tax revenue

Discover more about the value of NASA and benefits to Mississippi at:

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NASA Stennis Director John Bailey hosted a Java with John session with Center Operations Directorate and Office of Commu...
10/23/2024

NASA Stennis Director John Bailey hosted a Java with John session with Center Operations Directorate and Office of Communications employees on Oct. 23. Java with John is an employee-led discussion in a casual environment aimed at fostering a culture in which employees are welcome to share what matters most to them at work.

NASA Stennis has entered into an agreement with Skydweller Aero Inc. for the company to operate its solar-powered autono...
10/23/2024

NASA Stennis has entered into an agreement with Skydweller Aero Inc. for the company to operate its solar-powered autonomous aircraft in the site’s restricted airspace, a key step towards achieving a strategic center goal>>>

NASA’s Stennis Range Operations has entered into an agreement with Skydweller Aero Inc. for the company to operate its solar-powered autonomous aircraft in the site’s restricted airspace, a key step towards achieving a strategic center goal.

Testing large rocket engines and stages requires a sizable surrounding acoustic buffer zone. In building NASA's Stennis ...
10/22/2024

Testing large rocket engines and stages requires a sizable surrounding acoustic buffer zone. In building NASA's Stennis Space Center, America's largest rocket propulsion test site, creating a 125,000-acre buffer zone required the relocation of several small communities, including one known as Gainesville. Shown here in this 1963 photo are two original Gainesville structures. The building on the right was the only store in the Gainesville community.

On Oct. 25, NASA Stennis celebrates its 63rd anniversary. It has come a long way since it was established in 1961, and it is marshalling its workforce, resources, and capabilities to go even further as it grows into the future.

NASA Stennis' sitewide employees and their guests attended the annual NASA Stennis Family Day at INFINITY Science Center...
10/21/2024

NASA Stennis' sitewide employees and their guests attended the annual NASA Stennis Family Day at INFINITY Science Center, the site's official visitor center, on Oct. 19. Attendees had the opportunity to journey through the exhibits at ISC and enjoy additional activities provided by participating organizations.

Tune in to the WXXV News 25 feature on NASA Stennis' Autonomous Systems Lab and its work on ASTRA (Autonomous Satellite ...
10/18/2024

Tune in to the WXXV News 25 feature on NASA Stennis' Autonomous Systems Lab and its work on ASTRA (Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications), the center's first in-space mission. 🛰

Behind the doors of a simple office building at NASA”s Stennis Space Center, scientists are developing technologies that are already streamlining operations on satellites, with the hopes of using this technology on future manned missions to the moon and Mars through the ASTRA mission. WXXV News 25...

  The Hunter's Moon will be visible through Friday morning and is the third of four consecutive supermoons (and the brig...
10/17/2024

The Hunter's Moon will be visible through Friday morning and is the third of four consecutive supermoons (and the brightest by a slight margin).

Behold: a full moon worthy of the Halloween season. The Hunter’s Moon!

According to the Farmer’s Almanac, this month’s full moon coincides with deer hunting season. This Hunter’s Moon is extra special this year because it is also a supermoon, which means that the full moon occurs when the Moon is closest to Earth in its elliptical orbit (and appears slightly larger and brighter).

Keep an eye on the sky for the next couple days, as the Moon will appear full through the morning of Friday, Oct. 18.

NASA Stennis Director John Bailey hosted a Java with John session with Office of Procurement employees on Oct. 15. Java ...
10/16/2024

NASA Stennis Director John Bailey hosted a Java with John session with Office of Procurement employees on Oct. 15. Java with John is an employee-led discussion in a casual environment aimed at fostering a culture in which employees are welcome to share what matters most to them at work.

In this   image, the Saturn V S-II-T rocket stage passes through the lock system at NASA Stennis, then-Mississippi Test ...
10/16/2024

In this image, the Saturn V S-II-T rocket stage passes through the lock system at NASA Stennis, then-Mississippi Test Facility, on Oct. 16, 1965. It was the first actual rocket stage delivered to the site for testing.

Start your engines! 🏁 NASA Stennis representatives proudly supported the 28th Annual Cruisin' The Coast car show along t...
10/15/2024

Start your engines! 🏁 NASA Stennis representatives proudly supported the 28th Annual Cruisin' The Coast car show along the Mississippi Gulf Coast Oct. 10-12, inspiring the and sharing NASA Stennis’ rich history of propulsion testing 🔥 with attendees from over 37 U.S. states and Canada.

NASA Stennis representatives inspired the   Oct. 12 at the Wild Things event celebrating   hosted by Friends of Louisian...
10/15/2024

NASA Stennis representatives inspired the Oct. 12 at the Wild Things event celebrating hosted by Friends of Louisiana Wildlife Refuges, Inc. and Southeast Louisiana National Wildlife Refuges Complex at Bayou Lacombe Center, headquarters for the nine National Wildlife Refuges in southeast Louisiana.

NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enorm...
10/15/2024

NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The spacecraft launched at 11:06 p.m. CDT Monday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The largest spacecraft NASA ever built for a mission headed to another planet, Europa Clipper also is the first NASA mission dedicated to studying an ocean world beyond Earth. The spacecraft will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers) on a trajectory that will leverage the power of gravity assists, first to Mars in four months and then back to Earth for another gravity assist flyby in 2026. After it begins orbiting Jupiter in April 2030, the spacecraft will fly past Europa 49 times.

NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have

10/11/2024

You're a super star (cluster)

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently caught this dazzling glimpse of Westerlund 1, a super star cluster in the Milky Way that packs the mass of (up to) 100,000 Suns in a region less than six light-years across.

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