Entrance Checkpoint at NASA Stennis Space Center
NASA Stennis Space Center security gate in Mississippi controls access to the rocket propulsion test facility.
Stennis Space Center sits on roughly 125,000 acres in Hancock County, Mississippi, near the Pearl River. NASA established the site in the early 1960s to test the Saturn V rocket stages used in the Apollo program, and it later served as the proving ground for Space Shuttle main engines before every shuttle flight. Today the center supports engine testing for NASA's Artemis program and hosts commercial aerospace tenants, including Aerojet Rocketdyne and Relativity Space. Security checkpoints like this one regulate access to the test complex and surrounding federal property, which also includes a buffer zone once used to relocate area residents during the site's construction.
Taken December 2019
