The Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF), located in New Orleans, Louisiana, is a NASA-owned manufacturing facility managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Known as "America's Rocket Factory," MAF is the nation's primary site for manufacturing and assembling large-scale space structures and systems. Currently, it focuses on producing the core stages for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and has been involved in manufacturing components for past programs like Apollo and the Space Shuttle. Key partners include Boeing and Lockheed Martin, and its products support NASA's Artemis program for lunar and deep-space exploration.
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NASA and Boeing moved the SLS core stage onto the Pegasus barge on 2024-07-16 from the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana will host the rollout of the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) core stage on Monday, 2024-07-15 and Tuesday, 2024-07-16.
The SLS core stage is planned to be shipped from the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to the Kennedy Space Center in June or July 2024.
Boeing opened a production facility at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to build the Exploration Upper Stage (EUS).
The revised SLS manufacturing plan will create approximately 125 jobs at the Michoud Assembly Facility and approximately 145 jobs at Kennedy Space Center.
A Boeing team manufactures the SLS core stage at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana using components made by more than 430 suppliers across the United States.
A continuing resolution passed 2021-09-30 funds the federal government through 2021-12-03 and included $321,400,000 for repairs to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
The continuing resolution provided $321,400,000 for NASA to cover damage from Hurricane Zeta and Hurricane Ida at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans will partially reopen on 2020-05-18, allowing some mission-critical personnel to resume working there after about two months of closure.
The Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans is run by Marshall Space Flight Center and is at Stage 4.
The Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans moved to Stage 3 on 2020-03-16.
A Defense Contract Management Agency review in October 2019 found foreign object debris in core stage hardware at Boeing’s Michoud Assembly Facility, prompting a two-day production pause while Boeing developed a corrective action plan.
NASA unveiled the SLS core stage during an Artemis Day event at the Michoud Assembly Facility on 2019-12-09.
The SLS core stage for the Artemis 1 mission is located at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and is ready to ship out of the factory by the end of the month.
Boeing is building the SLS core stage at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
NASA considered skipping the green run and shipping the core stage directly from the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to the Kennedy Space Center with a brief pad test firing at KSC as an alternative.
Current plans call for the SLS core stage to be built at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, shipped to Stennis for the green run test, and then transported to Kennedy Space Center for launch preparations.
Jim Bridenstine visited the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on 2018-08-13 and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama on 2018-08-15 as part of a series of regional NASA facility appearances.
Contamination in tubing was discovered during a routine quality assurance inspection at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.