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Rocket Barge on the Pearl River - GPN-2000-003014

The tugboat Bob Fuqua and NASA barge Poseidon moving a Saturn V test rocket. During the early 1700's French settlers once cautiously sailed up the beautiful Pearl River in Hancock County looking for a New World home. Later, swashbuckling pirates took refuge in this historic stream in South Mississippi after raiding merchant ships. Today, a different cargo leaves a wake in the blue waters en route to National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mississippi Test Facility. The huge barge being

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