[BBell]

Stennis Space Center tested its Space Launch System on July 17, 2015. During a 535-second test, operators ran the RS-25 through a series of power levels, including a period of firing at 109 percent of the engine's rated power. Data collected on performance of the engine at the various power levels will aid in adapting the former space shuttle engines to the new SLS vehicle mission requirements, including development of an all-new engine controller and software. Four RS-25 engines will use the added performance to help power the SLS core stage during launch. (Photo submitted the the Stennis Space Center). (Photo submitted by the Stennis S)

[Cringing Negativism Network]

When fully developed, the heavy-lift version of the spacecraft will be the largest, most powerful rocket ever built.

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That got my attention.

Is America’s space program rebuilding?

[Little Ray]

I am still trying to figure out why we don’t have a laser launch system by now.

[Dagnabitt]

Were Iranian officials on hand for this test of their future hardware/tech?

[smokingfrog]

What about all that CO2?

[Antoninus II]

I used to live close enough to Stennis to feel and here the space shuttle booster rocket tests. A coworker remembered the windows rattling when, as a kid they tested the Saturn 5 boosters there.

[montag813]

Why aren't the #BlackLivesMatter creeps going after the "John C. Stennis Space Center"? After all:

Stennis was an ardent supporter of racial segregation, like most Mississippian Democrats at the time. In the 1950s and 1960s he vigorously opposed the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and he signed the Southern Manifesto of 1956, supporting filibuster tactics to block or delay passage in all cases.

Oh yeah...because he was a DEMOCRAT.

[martin_fierro]

Stennis Space Center.

Oh. Nevermind.