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Article: From Mississippi to Mars: when NASA sends Americans in space it is with rockets made at Stennis Space Center.(Focus: Technology & Telecommunications)
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 25, 2009
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"If you are an American going into space, you are riding on rocket engines made here in Mississippi."
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That's the proud statement of John C. Stennis Space Center director Gene Goldman. When the Space Shuttle retires in 2010, NASA will be putting the finishing touches on the next generation of U.S. spacecraft: the Orion space capsule and the Ares I and Ares V crew and cargo launch vehicles. The Constellation Project was started by NASA in 2005 and is on track for its first flight in 2015. The next mission to the Moon will be sometime in 2020, 51 years after NASA's first landing in 1969. Mars is on ...