Stennis Space Center

30°21′45.96″N 89°36′00.72″W / 30.3627667°N 89.6002000°W / 30.3627667; -89.6002000

John C. Stennis Space Center

The B-1/B-2 Test Stand holding Space Shuttle components (1987)
Agency overview
Formed	1961
Preceding agencies	Mississippi Test Operations National Space Technology Laboratories
Jurisdiction	U.S. federal government
Headquarters	Hancock County, Mississippi
Agency executive	Richard J. Gilbrech, director[1]
Parent agency	NASA
Website	Stennis Space Center home page

The John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) is a NASA rocket testing facility in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States, on the banks of the Pearl River at the Mississippi–Louisiana border. As of 2012^[update], it is NASA's largest rocket engine test facility. There are over 50 local, state, national, international, private, and public companies and agencies using SSC for their rocket testing facilities.