During lunch, I got a sense of what an enormous entity the Stennis is.

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Stennis during a training exercise about 100 miles off the San Diego coast.

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Terry Studley, from Portland, has been fishing for crabs and scallops on an area of seabed called Stennis Ledges near Chesil Beach for several years.

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Wednesday's leg took Endeavour to Houston, with flyovers along Florida's Space Coast, Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.

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He joins us today from NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

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Marty Wiseman, who heads the Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University, says that no one is a more knowledgeable or effective political strategist than Mr Barbour.

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Stennis and the warship's battle group stationed in San Diego, California, have been ordered to sail Monday to the Arabian Sea, more than a month ahead of their scheduled January deployment, Pentagon officials said.

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After the Bush Administration announced last year that the space shuttle would be retired in 2010, NASA's Stennis Space Center, which performs engine testing on it, went into action, wooing more private enterprises to its 140, 000-acre grounds.

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His speech in the Stennis's cavernous hanger was inaudible to most of the assembled sailors because the PA system didn't work, but the journalists reassured everyone that they weren't missing much as the speech was almost identical to the one he gave three days ago to American forces in the Sinai Desert.

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