Michoud Assembly Facility
For more than half a century, NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans has been “America’s Rocket Factory,” the nation’s premiere site for manufacturing and assembly of large-scale space structures and systems. Michoud is NASA-owned and managed for the agency by Marshall Space Flight Center.
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana
founded
September 7, 1961
people
3,500+
Director
Hansel D. V. Gill
2023 Michoud Assembly Facility Year-In-Review
March 8, 2024
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NASA rolled out the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s core stage for the Artemis II test flight from its manufacturing…
Team members are installing pedestals aboard NASA’s Pegasus barge to hold and secure the massive core stage of NASA’s SLS…
NASA is preparing the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket core stage that will help power the first crewed mission of…
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