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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Mississippi entered the space age in the early 1960s when NASA announced plans to place its test facilities for the Saturn V Moon rocket in the southern part of the state. Less than eight years later, American astronauts walked on the lunar surface, safely transported hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth by a space vehicle equipped with first and second stages tested and proven flightworthy at the John C. Stennis Space Center. The facility, located in Hancock County, Mississippi, is NASA's lead center for rocket propulsion testing and for commercial remote sensing within the Mission to Planet Earth Enterprise.

This history is one of several prepared in the NASA History Series telling the story of NASA centers and facilities. Mack R. Herring was one of the first employees of the Stennis Space center and for many years served as the public affairs officer.

(Extracted from the dust jacket.)

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-List of Illustrations.

-Foreword.

-Acknowledgments.

-Prologue.

-1. Decision for Mississippi.

-2. A Sense of Place.

-3. The Thorn Before the Rose.

-4. Temples in the Swamp.

-5. In Mississippi Mud.

-6. Testing Saturn.

-7. The Winds of Change.

-8. Growing Pains.

-9. Toward Full Utilization.

-10. In Search of a Role.

-11. Acceptance and Trust.

-12. Of Triumph and Tragedy.

-13. Testing the Way.

-14. Bigger Dreams.

-15. For Future Generations.

-Epilogue.

-Acronyms.

-Chronology of Significant Events.

-Charts and Graphs.

-Index.

-About the Author.