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National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Paul Foerman
NASA News Chief
John C. Stennis Space Center
Stennis Space Center, MS 39529-6000
(228) 688-3341



JTE-03-176
Nov. 19, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


NASA STENNIS SPACE CENTER PARTICIPATES IN CENTENNIAL OF FLIGHT EVENT AT
KITTY HAWK

HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. - NASA Stennis Space Center (SSC), the nation's
largest rocket test
complex, will send a Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) to Kitty Hawk, N.C.,
for the Centennial of
Flight celebration Dec. 12-17 at the Wright Brothers National Memorial.
"The SSME is the culmination of aeronautic propulsion," said Aerospace
Technologist Bryon
Maynard of NASA's Propulsion Systems and Technologies at SSC. "It's the
extreme example of
man's achievement in flight."
Orville and Wilbur Wright's first heavier-than-air powered flight in 1903
lasted 12 seconds at
10 mph, and traveled 120 feet. NASA's Shuttle flights have lasted up to 17
days at more that 17,000
mph, and have traveled over 5 million miles.
On Nov. 14, the 17,000-pound SSME left SSC on a flatbed trailer, bound for
the Outer Banks
of North Carolina, where the Wright Brothers made their historic first
flight.
The SSME that awed and educated visitors at its permanent home at
StenniSphere, the visitor
center at SSC, will be seen by an audience of more than 100,000 guests at
the centennial celebration.
Maynard said, "Sending the SSME to Kitty Hawk is an opportunity for people
to learn what
NASA does in South Mississippi."
SSC manages NASA's rocket propulsion test assets and activities in
Mississippi, at Marshall
Space Flight Center in Alabama, at Glenn Research Center in Ohio and at the
White Sands Test
Facility in New Mexico. The center's main mission since 1975 has been to
test all Space Shuttle Main
Engines that power the Space Shuttle during its 8 ½-minute ascent to orbit.
SSC also tests and proves
flight-worthy rocket propulsion systems for current and future space
vehicles and provides test
services for government and commercial customers.
Throughout the week, dignitaries from the aviation world and the U.S.
military, as well as the
general public, will take part in various activities marking 100 years of
flight. The event culminates
Dec. 17 with a reenactment of the Wrights' flight in a replica of their
first plane, hosted by actor and
pilot John Travolta.
StenniSphere currently features a Centennial of Flight exhibit, "From First
Flight to Space
Flight," which includes a 1/6-scale model of the Wrights' first flyer,
showcasing the astonishing
achievements of human flight over the past century and highlighting the
NASA-developed
technologies that have helped make life better on Earth.
StenniSphere's fall/winter hours are Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. The center is
closed Sundays and all major holidays. Tours begin at the Launch Pad, Exit
2, I-10, near Bay St.
Louis. Admission to StenniSphere is free.
For more information, call (228) 688-2370 or 1-800-237-1821 or visit
www.nasa.gov/public/visitors.




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