Michoud Assembly Facility

E684165

NASA facility manufacturing complex

The Michoud Assembly Facility is a NASA-owned manufacturing complex in New Orleans best known for producing major rocket components, including the Space Shuttle’s external fuel tanks and elements of the Space Launch System.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Michoud Assembly Facility canonical	2
Michoud	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	NASA facility ⓘ manufacturing complex ⓘ
affiliation	NASA Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Marshall Space Flight Center NERFINISHED ⓘ
area	approximately 832 acres ⓘ
builtFor	war materiel production during World War II ⓘ
city	New Orleans ⓘ
convertedTo	NASA space hardware manufacturing facility ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
floorArea	over 3,000,000 square feet ⓘ
hasFeature	barge dock facilities ⓘ deep-water access via the Intracoastal Waterway ⓘ large high-bay manufacturing buildings ⓘ rail access ⓘ runway access ⓘ
historicalUse	Cold War aerospace manufacturing site ⓘ World War II production plant ⓘ
knownFor	manufacturing Apollo spacecraft hardware ⓘ manufacturing Orion spacecraft components ⓘ manufacturing Saturn I rocket stages ⓘ manufacturing Saturn IB rocket stages ⓘ manufacturing Saturn V first stages ⓘ manufacturing Space Launch System core stages ⓘ manufacturing Space Shuttle external fuel tanks ⓘ
locatedIn	New Orleans East NERFINISHED ⓘ Orleans Parish NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedNear	Gulf of Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ
namedAfter	Antoine Michoud NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableProduct	Orion pressure vessel components ⓘ Saturn I first stage NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturn IB first stage NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturn V S-IC first stage NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Launch System core stage NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle external tank NERFINISHED ⓘ
operator	NASA ⓘ
owner	NASA NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	NASA Marshall Space Flight Center NERFINISHED ⓘ
risk	vulnerability to hurricanes and storm surge ⓘ
state	Louisiana ⓘ
usedBy	NASA Marshall Space Flight Center NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. government contractors ⓘ commercial aerospace companies ⓘ
usedDuring	Apollo program NERFINISHED ⓘ Orion program NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Launch System program NERFINISHED ⓘ Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedFor	large-scale aerospace fabrication ⓘ rocket stage manufacturing ⓘ spacecraft assembly ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

External Tank → manufacturedAt → Michoud Assembly Facility ⓘ

NASA Michoud Assembly Facility → locatedInNeighborhood → Michoud Assembly Facility ⓘ

this entity surface form: Michoud

NASA Michoud Assembly Facility → hasAlternateName → Michoud Assembly Facility ⓘ