NASA has named Patrick Scheuermann as the deputy director of NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center.
Tylertown native Keith Brock has been chosen to head the Project Directorate at NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center.
NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center will provide propulsion system acceptance testing for the Taurus II space launch vehicle, which Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va., is developing.
State-of-the-art test facilities at NASA John C. Stennis Space Center include the A, B and E complexes, designed for rocket propulsion testing from component to engine to stage-level. Since 1975, the center’s primary mission has been to test the main engines that propel the space shuttle during its 8 ½ -minute ascent to orbit.
Under NASA Stennis Space Center’s Engineering and Science Directorate, rocket engine propulsion test activities are conducted on one-of-a-kind national test facilities collectively valued at more than $2 billion. SSC is America’s largest rocket engine test complex and is surrounded by a 125,000-acre acoustical buffer zone, which is considered a national asset.
NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center Applied Sciences Program works with other federal agencies and research organizations to extend NASA’s Earth-Sun science research into societal benefit.