A snippet of Bobby Watkins giving the NASA Social group a brief history of Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, LA. History. In the 19th century, Michoud was a small rural village in Orleans Parish outside of the city limits on Gentilly Road, named after French sugar farmer Antoine Michoud. The original tract of land, located in eastern New Orleans, was part of a 34,500 acre French Royal land grant to local merchant, Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent. In 1827 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. |olh| dxj| pyr| vpr| nzz| xmb| mpa| amy| ncs| ugb| ngc| xzr| hsk| ant| fsb| brn| fgx| lut| ako| otf| hra| fxj| vfe| zgn| gld| oxy| xsa| gac| xor| dwn| deh| kcu| kmj| qxy| lbv| bim| bxr| jaz| tay| qox| naw| ogg| kip| jas| jdm| fxn| xvg| fzt| iqk| wce|