NASA Michoud Assembly Facility
1961 - Operational
Overview
A 43 acre factory floor near New Orleans where the giant first stages of the Saturn V Moon rockets were welded and stacked, then external tanks for the Space Shuttle, and now the core stage of the SLS rocket. One of the largest manufacturing buildings in America.
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