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    The Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) is an 832-acre (1.3 sq mi; 3.4 km2) manufacturing complex owned by NASA in New Orleans East, a section of New Orleans...
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    successful emergency landing on a grass levee adjacent to NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, with no one aboard sustaining more than a few minor injuries...
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    the factory for the moon program; it is now known as the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility complex. This area has the distinction of being the fastest-sinking...
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    friction stir welding system in the South Vertical Assembly Building at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility. Between 2015 and 2017, NASA test fired RS-25 engines...
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    Saturn V (section Assembly)
    into the pumps. The S-IC was built by the Boeing Company at the Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, where the Space Shuttle external tanks would later...
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  • honor of General George C. Marshall. The center also operates the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans, Louisiana to build and assemble hardware...
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    System (SLS) rocket, built by The Boeing Company in the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility. At 65 m (212 ft) tall and 8.4 m (27.6 ft) in diameter, the core...
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    stage in Building 103 of the Michoud Assembly Facility; they will be installed in the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy beginning with Artemis...
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    firm that designed manufacturing buildings - most famously the Michoud Assembly Facility. Andrew Higgins also owned the New Orleans-based Higgins Lumber...
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    layoffs at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility with the retirement of the space shuttle fleet. However, the Michoud Assembly Facility continues to be a source...
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    Marietta), New Orleans, Louisiana. The tank was manufactured at the Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, and was transported to Kennedy Space Center by barge...
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    Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory LM Space Applications Laboratory Michoud Assembly Facility Sandia National Laboratories (former) Active products A2100 Aegis...
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    stage – Boeing was the prime contractor where the Michoud Assembly Facility was used for the final assembly) St. Louis, Missouri (F-15, F/A-18) St. Charles...
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    manufacture the S-IC stage of the Saturn V rocket, manufactured at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1966, Boeing president William M...
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    and ends at the Almonaster Boulevard interchange, near the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility. From this point, the highway continues south over the Gulf Intracoastal...
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    and the Michoud Assembly Facility. These modules were delivered to the Operations and Checkout Building and the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF)...
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    is manufactured at a Lockheed Martin facility near Troy, Alabama. The facility performs final integration, assembly and testing of the THAAD missile. The...
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  • Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory LM Space Applications Laboratory Michoud Assembly Facility Sandia National Laboratories (former) Active products A2100 Aegis...
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    transported to the SPOC. SPOC was formerly known as the Solid Motor Assembly and Readiness Facility (SMARF) during its support of the Titan IVB launch vehicle;...
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    ). Economic drivers in this part of the city include the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans Lakefront Airport, Folgers Coffee Plant, Faubourg...
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    the 14.5-tonne (32,000 lb) research laboratory in 1995 at the Michoud Assembly Facility and then the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama...
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  • design to the Blackbird, was built to overfly the Lop Nur nuclear test facility in China. This drone was launched from the back of a specially modified...
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    000 lb). It was manufactured by the Lockheed Martin Corporation at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. It has 50% more volume than the Apollo capsule...
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    fuel tanks and Chrysler built it for the Apollo program in the Michoud Assembly Facility in East New Orleans, one of the largest manufacturing plants in...
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    Artemis 1 (section Assembly)
    mid-November 2014, construction of the SLS core stage began at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF). In January 2015, NASA and Lockheed Martin announced that...
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    consists of three main components: the Command Launch Unit, the Launch Tube Assembly and the missile itself. Each missile contains 250 microprocessors. The...
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    Space Flight Center (MSFC). The main place of manufacture was the Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans. Wind tunnel testing took place in Seattle and the...
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    was built by Bell Aerospace (Textron Corporation) at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility. Driven by 2 semi-submerged, supercavitating controllable, reversible...
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  • California, to the newly constructed facility in Palo Alto, California, in 1956, then to the larger facility in Sunnyvale in 1957. The Polaris missile...
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    Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory LM Space Applications Laboratory Michoud Assembly Facility Sandia National Laboratories (former) Active products A2100 Aegis...
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