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John C. Stennis Space Center
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Native Mississippian and Nobel writer William Faulkner once described the Mississippi Gulf Coast as an area in which “The pines and moss-hung live oaks give way to grassy marshes so flat, low, and treeless that they seem less of Earth than water.
More of a beginning to the sea than an end to the land.” Faulkner’s words may not represent the heartiest of endorsements for the area selected for the John C. Stennis Space Center, but nonetheless, roads, buildings, canals, and test facilities were built on the selected site along the Pearl River in Hancock County, MS.
With the close of World War II and the onset of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, America was at a great disadvantage because of an underdeveloped space program in direct cont
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