NASA to build new Stennis test stand for Ares engine

NASA plans to build a new 300-foot tall rocket engine test stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi that should be ready in time to begin testing the Ares I's J-2X engine in late 2010. The new structure will be the first large test stand built at Stennis since the 1960s, according to NASA. It...

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