Michoud Assembly Facility

The Michoud Assembly Facility is an 832-acre industrial complex for the manufacture and structural assembly of aerospace vehicles and components. It is owned by NASA and located in New Orleans East, a section of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States.
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  • Type: Reserve
  • Description: NASA rocket manufacturing complex in Michoud, New Orleans
  • Also known as: “MAF”
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include New Orleans Power Station and Dong Phuong Oriental Bakery.

Power station
The is a natural gas–fired electrical power plant in . It is operated by Entergy New Orleans and regulated by the New Orleans City Council.

Bakery
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is a Vietnamese retail and wholesale bakery, restaurant, and catering business in , . It is known for supplying the baguette style bread for many of the city's restaurants that offer bánh mì or other sandwiches, and has its own popular bánh mì counter.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Michoud and Eastern New Orleans.

Hamlet
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is an area in Eastern New Orleans, part of the Ninth Ward of , , located at latitude 30.03°N, longitude −89.925°W.

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, sometimes called "New Orleans East", is a large area of to the north east of the older central portion of the city.

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is a suburb of in , USA. is the "Parish seat" of , known to locals simply as "The Parish".

Michoud Assembly Facility

Latitude
30.01835° or 30° 1′ 6″ north
Longitude
-89.91737° or 89° 55′ 3″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
Open location code
862G239M+83
Geo­Names ID
4333215
Wiki­data ID
Q1441564
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In Other Languages

From Central Kurdish to Ukrainian—“Michoud Assembly Facility” goes by many names.
  • Central Kurdish: “دامەزراوەی کۆکردنەوەی میشوود”
  • Chinese: “米丘德装配厂”
  • Chinese: “米丘德裝配廠”
  • Chinese: “米喬德裝配廠”
  • Czech: “Michoud Assembly Facility”
  • Dutch: “Michoud Assembly Facility”
  • Esperanto: “Michoud Assembly Facility”
  • Finnish: “Michoud Assembly Facility”
  • French: “centre d’assemblage de Michoud”
  • French: “Centre d’assemblage de Michoud”
  • German: “Michoud Assembly Facility”
  • Hebrew: “מתקן ההרכבה מישוד”
  • Indonesian: “Michoud Assembly Facility”
  • Italian: “Michoud Assembly Facility”
  • Japanese: “Michoud組み立て工場”
  • Japanese: “Michoud組み立て施設”
  • Japanese: “ミーシュー組立工場”
  • Japanese: “ミーシュー組立施設”
  • Persian: “کارخانه مونتاژ میشو”
  • Persian: “مرکز اسمبلی میچود”
  • Slovenian: “MAF”
  • Slovenian: “Michoud Assembly Facility”
  • Turkish: “Michoud Montaj Tesisi”
  • Ukrainian: “Michoud Assembly Facility”

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