NASA Michoud Assembly Facility

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NASA Michoud Assembly Facility is a major NASA manufacturing complex in New Orleans best known for producing large spaceflight hardware such as Saturn V stages, Space Shuttle external tanks, and components for the Space Launch System.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf NASA facility
manufacturing complex
adjacentTo Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
surface form: Intracoastal Waterway
country United States of America
surface form: United States
formerlyUsedFor agricultural plantation
hasAlternateName Michoud Assembly Facility
hasCity New Orleans
hasCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
hasFacility Vertical Assembly Building
large manufacturing bays
test facilities
welding facilities
hasFloorArea approximately 43 acres under one roof
hasSiteArea approximately 832 acres
hasState Louisiana
hasTransportationAccess deep-water barge access
highway access
rail access
knownFor large-scale welding of rocket structures
production of Saturn V stages
production of Space Launch System core stages
production of Space Launch System hardware
production of Space Shuttle external tanks
locatedInMetropolitanArea New Orleans metropolitan area
locatedInNeighborhood Michoud Assembly Facility
surface form: Michoud
location Louisiana
New Orleans
United States of America
surface form: United States
namedAfter Antoine Michoud
openedAsNASAFacility 1961
operator NASA
ownedBy NASA
partOf Marshall Space Flight Center
surface form: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
producedComponentFor Orion spacecraft
surface form: Orion pressure vessel

Saturn I
surface form: Saturn I first stage

Saturn IB
surface form: Saturn IB first stage

Saturn V first stage (S-IC)
surface form: Saturn V first stage

SLS core stage
surface form: Space Launch System core stage

External Tank
surface form: Space Shuttle external tank
usedBy NASA contractors
aerospace companies
usedFor large spaceflight hardware production
rocket stage manufacturing
spacecraft manufacturing
usedForProgram Apollo program
Orion program
surface form: Orion spacecraft program

Space Launch System
surface form: Space Launch System program

NASA Space Shuttle program
surface form: Space Shuttle program

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