Stennis, with its 125,000-acre acoustical buffer zone, was selected by NASA in the 1960s as an engine test site, specifically because of its space and isolation. The first test stand was used to test the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo Program. In the 1970s, Stennis began testing space shuttle main engines.
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Several years ago, I owned a home on a hill about 20 miles from Stennis. During winter, when the air was dense and calm, tests of the Space Shuttle engines would rattle the windows and vibrate the whole structure.
I thought it cool!
1 posted on
05/29/2009 7:15:50 AM PDT by
Islander7
To: WKB; wardaddy; Downsouth55; Michael Knight; ejonesie22; bkwells; DogwoodSouth; WileyPink; jmax; ...
2 posted on
05/29/2009 7:16:24 AM PDT by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: Islander7
5 posted on
05/29/2009 7:23:46 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: Islander7
I owned a home on a hill about 20 miles from StennisI've been to Stennis -it's beautiful there.
6 posted on
05/29/2009 7:25:21 AM PDT by
NoPrisoners
("When in the course of human events...")
To: Islander7; KevinDavis
Soon enough, neighbors will move in and complain about the noise. I’m worried about the wisdom of using Pad 39B for testing Ares.
8 posted on
05/29/2009 7:30:06 AM PDT by
NonValueAdded
("Tyranny is always whimsical." Mark Steyn 3/9/2009)
To: Islander7
Wonder if you can see the structure from I-10?
14 posted on
05/29/2009 7:47:32 AM PDT by
COBOL2Java
(Obamanation: an imploding administration headed by a clueless schmuck, with McCain as his Kowakian)
To: Islander7
I was stationed at Huntsville’s Redstone Arsenal, Ala back in the 60’s. They were test firing the Saturn V there in a similar test stand.
16 posted on
05/29/2009 7:50:28 AM PDT by
Piquaboy
(Military veteran of 22 years in Navy, Air Force, and Army.)
To: SeraphimApprentice; zot
Will it happen under the new director?
17 posted on
05/29/2009 7:52:30 AM PDT by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Islander7
Several years ago, I owned a home on a hill about 20 miles from Stennis. During winter, when the air was dense and calm, tests of the Space Shuttle engines would rattle the windows and vibrate the whole structure. I thought it cool!
It *was* cool! I went to several Shuttle engine tests which were open to the public at Stennis. The place really used to rattle my parents' windows back in the late '60s when they tested those huge Rocketdyne F1 engines for the Apollo program. I was a few miles further away from the test stand, too (eastern New Orleans).
18 posted on
05/29/2009 7:52:53 AM PDT by
Charles Martel
("Endeavor to persevere...")
To: Islander7
I owned a home on a hill about 20 miles from Stennis
Man you all got little hills down there. LOL
21 posted on
05/29/2009 7:58:38 AM PDT by
McGruff
(My experience as a white man makes me better than a latina woman. That's ok right?)
To: Islander7
I suspect the muslim in the o thing will cancel this Moon business as an insult to islam. But not before a few billion have been spent on it, then another billion to shut it down. His attack on America continues.
24 posted on
05/29/2009 8:36:31 AM PDT by
onedoug
To: Islander7
We lived in Slidell back in 1999-2000...dh was stationed with the Navy’s river boat unit at Stennis. Some of the most beautiful homes of the pre-Civil War era are down on the Gulf Coast.
27 posted on
05/29/2009 8:53:11 AM PDT by
Hoosier Catholic Momma
(Arkansas resident of Hoosier upbringing--Yankee with a southern twang)
To: Islander7
We’re borrowing hand over fist from the Chinese so we can do something we already did 40 years ago?
30 posted on
05/29/2009 9:12:33 AM PDT by
mysterio
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