In four descending columns, from left to right: Maestrale class frigate | MM Maestrale ( F 570 ), FS De Grasse | De Grasse ( D 612 ); USS John C. Stennis | USS John C. Stennis ( CVN 74 ), FS Charles de Gaulle | Charles De Gaulle ( R 91 ), Surcouf ( F711 ) | Surcouf ( F 711 ); USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ) | USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ), HMS Ocean ( L12 ) | HMS Ocean ( L 12 ), USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ) | USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ), Hr.

Stennis lost his left leg to cancer in 1984.

In four descending columns, from left to right: Maestrale class frigate | ITS Maestrale ( F 570 ), FS De Grasse | FS De Grasse ( D 612 ); USS John C. Stennis | USS John C. Stennis ( CVN 74 ), FS Charles de Gaulle | FS Charles De Gaulle ( R 91 ), Surcouf ( F711 ) | FS Surcouf ( F 711 ); USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ) | USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ), HMS Ocean ( L12 ) | HMS Ocean ( L 12 ), USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ) | USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ), Hr.

In four descending columns, from left to right: Maestrale class frigate | MM Maestrale ( F 570 ), FS De Grasse | FS De Grasse ( D 612 ); USS John C. Stennis | USS John C. Stennis ( CVN 74 ), FS Charles de Gaulle | FS Charles De Gaulle ( R 91 ), Surcouf ( F711 ) | FS Surcouf ( F 711 ); USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ) | USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ), HMS Ocean ( L12 ) | HMS Ocean ( L 12 ), USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ) | USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ), Hr.

In five descending columns, from the top left to the bottom right: Maestrale class frigate | MM Maestrale ( F 570 ); FS De Grasse | FS De Grasse ( D 612 ), USS John C. Stennis | USS John C. Stennis ( CVN 74 ); FS Charles de Gaulle | FS Charles De Gaulle ( R 91 ), Surcouf ( F711 ) | FS Surcouf ( F 711 ); USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ) | USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ), HMS Ocean ( L12 ) | HMS Ocean ( L 12 ), USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ) | USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ), Hr.

Readdy served as Associate Administrator, NASA HQ Office of Space Flight that has oversight for the Marshall, Kennedy, Stennis and Johnson Space Centers as well as programmatic oversight for International Space Station, Space Shuttle, Space Communications and Space Launch Vehicles.

The facility was renamed again to Mississippi Test Facility on July 1, 1965, became a part of the Marshall Space Flight Center on June 14, 1974 and renamed National Space Technology Laboratories a name that continued until May 20, 1988 when it was renamed for Mississippi senator and space program supporter John C. Stennis.

A remote camera captures a close-up view of a Space Shuttle Main Engine during a test firing at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi

A similar situation occurred in the U. S. when NASA acquired land to construct the John C. Stennis Space Center ( SSC ), a rocket testing facility, in Hancock County, Mississippi ( on the Mississippi side of the Mississippi River, which is the Mississippi-Louisiana state line ) required NASA to acquire a large ( approximately ) buffer zone because of the loud noise and potential dangers associated with testing such rockets.

A remote camera captures a close-up view of a Space Shuttle Main Engine during a test firing at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi

The area is also home to the John C. Stennis Space Center, NASA's largest rocket engine test facility.

Known as the Mississippi Test Facility ( later renamed the John C. Stennis Space Center ), this was primarily to test the vehicles built at the Michoud Plant.

With the advent of the U. S. space program in the 1960s, NASA opened the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, the John C. Stennis Space Center in nearby Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and a NASA computer center on Gause Boulevard.

In 1961, Pearlington was one of six communities in Hancock County, Mississippi acquired either wholly ( Gainesville, Logtown, Napoleon, Santa Rosa, and Westonia ) or in part ( a section of northern Pearlington ), along with a combined population of 700 families who were completely relocated to provide a acoustical buffer zone for what was envisioned to be NASA's main rocket testing facility, the John C. Stennis Space Center ( SSC ).

The Stennis Space Center is away.

* Stennis Space Center

Three XRS-2200 engines were built during the X-33 program and underwent testing at NASA's Stennis Space Center.

* John C. Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi

* John C. Stennis Space Center

* John C. Stennis Space Center

The Command Module is on display at the NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

* John C. Stennis Space Center

DMAHC was formed in 1972 when the Navy's Hydrographic Office split its two components: The charting component was attached to DMAHC, and the survey component moved to the Naval Oceanographic Office, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on the grounds of what is now the NASA Stennis Space Center.

RS-68 being tested at NASA's Stennis Space Center.

Additionally, the Oceanography division operates at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi as well as the Extreme-Ultraviolet and X-Ray Calibration Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.

* Santa Rosa, Mississippi, a small community that was displaced when the John C. Stennis Space Center was constructed in the early 1960s

The contract was part of the NASA Scientific Data Purchase which was administrated through NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center.

With the destruction suffered by Michoud and NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi due to Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding, the launch of the next shuttle mission ( STS-121 ) was further delayed until 4 July 2006.

From October 2007 through October 2008 Cabana served as Director, John C. Stennis Space Center.

* John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Training and Development ( Stennis Center for Public Service )

* Stennis Center for Public Service.

* Stennis Center for Public Service

In 1928, Stennis obtained a law degree from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, where he was a member of ΦΒΚ and ΑΧΡ.

Eventually he was named Director of Stennis Operations, where he managed facility construction, security and other programs for 4, 500 Stennis personnel.

George J. Mitchell was elected deputy president pro tempore in 1987, because of the illness of president pro tempore John C. Stennis, similar to Metcalf's earlier designation as Permanent Acting President pro tempore.

His final film was Advise and Consent ( 1962 ), for which he received favorable comments for his performance as a southern US Senator ( for which accent he studied recordings of Mississippi Senator John Stennis ).

At the time, Eastland and Stennis were the longest-serving Senate duo in American history, though their record was subsequently surpassed by Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings of South Carolina, who served together for 36 years.

Long-time United States Senator John C. Stennis ( 1947 – 1989 ) was born in Kemper County.

In 1982 Barbour was the Republican nominee for the U. S. Senate election in Mississippi, but was defeated by longtime incumbent John C. Stennis, a conservative Democrat, 64 % to 36 %, despite an endorsement by President Ronald Reagan.

John Cornelius Stennis ( August 3, 1901April 23, 1995 ) was a U. S. Senator from the state of Mississippi.

Stennis was a prosecutor from 1932 to 1937 and a circuit judge from 1937 to 1947, both for Mississippi's Sixteenth Judicial District.

Stennis wrote the first Senate ethics code, and was the first chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee.

In 1973, Stennis was almost fatally wounded by two gunshots after being mugged outside his Washington home.

Because of his work with the Armed Services committee ( 1969 – 1980 ) he became known as the " Father of America's Modern Navy ", and he was subsequently honored by having a supercarrier, USS John C. Stennis ( CVN-74 ) named after him.

Originally, Stennis was an ardent supporter of racial segregation, like most Mississippi politicians.

The transcript of the trial indicated Stennis was fully aware that the suspects had been tortured.

Stennis was the first Democrat to publicly criticize Joseph McCarthy on the Senate floor during the Red Scare.

At the time of Stennis ' retirement, his continuous tenure of 41 years and 2 months in the Senate was second only to that of Carl Hayden.

On 17 May 2009, Edwin performed on board USS John C. Stennis, while the carrier was on a Western Pacific deployment in the vicinity of Guam.

On Friday, October 19, 1973, he offered what was later known as the Stennis Compromise-asking U. S. Senator John C. Stennis to review and summarize the tapes for the special prosecutor's office.