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: Factory
  • Description: NASA rocket manufacturing complex in Michoud, New Orleans
  • Also known as: “MAF”
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include New Orleans Power Station and Vietnamese Martyr’s Church.

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. is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Michoud Assembly Facility.

Church
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is situated 1¼ miles north of Michoud Assembly Facility.

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. is situated 1 mile north of Michoud Assembly Facility.

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
30.02087° or 30° 1′ 15″ north
Longitude
-89.91846° or 89° 55′ 7″ west
Operator
NASA
Open location code
862G23CJ+8J
Open­Street­Map ID
way 693801541
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­industrial
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­works
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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