";s:4:"text";s:2782:" X Marks the Spot Scientists from the Louisiana State University (LSU) Louisiana Spatial Reference Center recently installed one of two GPS stations at the Michoud Assembly Facility.
All 3,500 employees at the facility have been accounted for, with five sustaining minor injuries. Recovery efforts are underway at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, which was impacted by a tornado at 11:25 a.m. CST Tuesday. NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans suffered damage from a tornado Feb. 7, but the agency said no critical space hardware was damaged. The stations represent how LSU, NASA, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and the private sector, have come together to harness space technology to make New Orleans a safer and more … Photographed Thursday, January 5, 2006.
NASA is honoring 38 men and women who risked their lives during Hurricane Katrina to protect the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility, where space shuttle external fuel tanks are manufactured east of New Orleans..
The Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) is an 832-acre (337 ha) manufacturing complex owned by NASA in New Orleans East, a district within New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States.Organizationally it is part of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and is currently a multi-tenant complex [2] to allow commercial and government contractors, as well as government agencies, to use the site. The Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) is an 832-acre (3.4-km²) site owned by NASA in New Orleans East, a district within New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States.Organizationally it is part of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and is currently a multi-tenant complex to allow commercial and government contractors, as well as government agencies, to use the site. Barges chipped off large chunks of concrete along the Michoud Canal levee on Michoud Assembly Facility property during Hurricane Katrina.