SpaceX joins list of Hancock County aerospace companies

May 31, 2014

Hancock County, the state of Mississippi and NASA's Stennis Space Center officially welcomed commercial spaceflight pioneer SpaceX at a ribbon cutting ceremony April 21. SpaceX will test its Raptor methane rocket engines at Stennis, joining other major aerospace companies along with federal agencies and contractors at the facility. The ribbon cutting "adds SpaceX to a growing list of aerospace companies that call Hancock County home," said Ashley Edwards, Executive Director of the Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission. "SpaceX is leading a paradigm shift in the space industry. As the home of Stennis Space Center, Hancock County is an important marker on the path of human space exploration. We are honored to partner with a company like SpaceX, which is revolutionizing our approach to the frontier of space." SpaceX, founded in 2002, designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company's goal is to revolutionize space technology so people can eventually live on other planets.