NASA - Michoud Assembly Facility Review

You guys are amazing. You made many amazing discoveries about everything and I want to work there because you make many incredible discoveries.

I worked here for Lockheed Martin for many years on the Space Shuttle Program. We designed, engineered, and built the External Tanks here - it was an amazing place to work, with some of the best people I ve ever met.

Astronauts used to visit regularly, and toward the end of the Shuttle program the crews would visit after they returned and give us presentations on their missions. The factory is just an amazing place - it was also used to build the Saturn V boosters (the biggest part of the moon rocket) and Werner von Braun himself has walked the halls of these buildings.

The facility is being used nowadays to build something else (SLS?) but Boeing is in charge now and they weren t hiring ex-Lockheed people so most of us weren t brought back like we hoped... but I wish them well on their project. I found great work in Denver but hope to get back to visit MAF someday.

Side note: I worked (mostly) in Bldg 101, which is in front of the factory and is facing Old Gentilly Rd. My window looked out at one of the two remaining smokestacks; those are from the old Antoine Michoud plantation. There is an exhibit in Bldg 102 near one of the crossovers (at least there was until 2011) that gives the history of Michoud, and even has an old photo from 1911 that shows a horse and buggy traveling along Old Gentilly in front of the old plantation, and the smokestacks are in view. Historic, remarkable place, used by the U.S. government since the 1940s.

I would like to visit this place I have many curiosities
I would love to be part of all that interests me and learning from all those who work there

Im from dallas, tx... one of these days im going to take a trip here but saw it from the out side looks pretty cool... this is the only view i got

This factory is huge, and the floors are polished to a shine.
Its NASA's Chris Hadfield rocket factory!

Only got to see it from the outside, but it is a gigantic place.

A great experience of what they do in NASA, and in the conquest of space, fabulous everything they do here,

I am one of the few people who have had the opportunity to tour the Michoud Assembly Facility as the staff builds the components of SLS, Orion, and other space craft that will fly on our first mission to Mars. The staff is super friendly and welcoming. NASA has built an AMAZING facility here with amazing tech that will lead us into the future and beyond!!

Got to bring the family to the base for family day and show them how the space program starts taking shape into a solid form. Everyone at NASA is always great and make everyone feel welcomed

I love NASA's expiry! I really want to go to NASA !!

I would like to know the place in person but I cannot since I am from Paraguay

I took a picture of the space shuttle outside . Then 3 officers came and told me to delete the pictures and leave