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A Defining Era: NASA Stennis and Space Shuttle Main Engine Testing


The numbers are astonishing – 34 years of testing space shuttle main engines at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi (a defining era), 3,244 individual tests, more than 820,000 seconds (totaling more than nine days) of cumulative hot fire.

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