By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News NASA doesn’t get to Mars without first testing its rocket engines in Mississippi. About an hour bus ride from New Orleans, Stennis Space Center, near Bay St. Louis, is the nation’s largest rocket engine test facility comprising 13,800 acres with another 125,000 acres serving as a perimeter […]
NASA’s Mission to Mars Goes Through Mississippi
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NASA’s On Track to Build the Most Powerful Rocket Ever

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News NEW ORLEANS – In a former sugar plantation on the eastern outskirts of New Orleans sits one of the city’s hidden gems. NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility is known as the gateway to space. Although most people know New Orleans for Mardi Gras, great Jazz music, art, Bourbon […]
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