1. 50 John C. Stennis Space Center celebratingyears of powering dreams!

2. October 25, 1961 NASA announced plans to open a rocket engine test facility in Hancock County, MS. May 17, 1963 First tree cutting

3. Weston Lumber Company Logtown, Mississippi

4. Gainesville Locomotive Gainesville, Mississippi

5. Santa Rosa Aaron Academy Santa Rosa, Mississippi

6. Napoleon Baptist Church Napoleon, Mississippi

7. Westonia School Westonia, Mississippi

8. “I don’t know yet what method we will use to get to the moon, but I do know that we will go through Mississippi to get there!” Dr. Wernher von Braun

9. Test Stand Construction

12. A Unique Federal City More than 5,300 NASA, contractor and resident agency employees NASA John C. Stennis Space Center* 278 NASA civil servants 1415 NASA contractors NASA Shared Services Center* The NSSC is located on site with 520 employees 134 NASA civil servants 386 NSSC contractors NAVY Commander, Naval Meteorology & Oceanography Command Naval Oceanographic Office Naval Research Laboratory Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical School Navy Special Boat Team 22 Navy Human Resources Service Center Southeast More than 30 major federal, state, academic and private organizations More than 60 technology-based companies * Employee numbers are approximate

14. Naval Oceanographic Office

15. Naval Research Laboratory

16. Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School

17. Navy Special Boat Team 22

19. Jacobs Technology Inc. – Facilities Operations

20. Lockheed Martin IS & GS – Civil - Test Operations Contract

21. A2 Research

22. ASRC Research and Technology Solutions (ARTS)

23. Paragon Systems Inc.

24. Science Applications International Corporation

26. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service

29. University of Southern Mississippi

30. University of Mississippi

31. University of New Orleans

34. Lockheed Martin IS & GS Defense Systems

36. Shuttle Program SSME Testing

38. Open steel frame structure

39. 19-acre site

40. Can withstand up to 1 million pounds of thrust

43. Federal co-lead of the Gulf of Mexico Alliance, a regional collaboration of the 5 US Gulf states and 13 federal agencies