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fUASA
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Space Shuttle Main Engine Testing
Each time a Space Shuttle is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, it is powered by three main engines which propel the vehicle and crew to an orbital destination anywhere between 100 and 500 miles above the Earth, depending upon the mission requirements. NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Miss., is the space administration’s official center for testing all of the Space Shuttle’s main engines before they are flown into space. Both research development and flight certification tests are conducted at Stennis Space Center on one of three huge steel and concrete stands. This photograph of the B-1 stand shows a typical ground test of the powerful main engine.
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