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Barge Pegasus docked in harbor at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.

Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF).

Michoud Assembly Facility

For more than half a century, NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans has been “America’s Rocket Factory,” the nation’s premiere site for manufacturing and assembly of large-scale space structures and systems. Michoud is NASA-owned and managed for the agency by Marshall Space Flight Center.

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Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

founded

September 7, 1961

people

3,500+

Director

Hansel D. V. Gill

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The Artemis II Core Stage rolls out of the Vertical Assembly Building to the waiting Pegasus barge at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in preparation for delivery to Kennedy Space Center.

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John Campbell, a logistics engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, stands on NASA's Pegasus barge July 15 for the Artemis II core stage ...

Members of NASA’s Pegasus Barge crew meet with Artemis II crew members at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans July 15 and 16.

Members of NASA’s Pegasus Barge crew meet with Artemis II crew members at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans July 15 and 16.

Teams at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans are preparing the agency’s Pegasus barge to carry the SLS rocket’s core stage ...

Members of NASA’s Pegasus Barge crew meet with Artemis II crew members at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans July 15 and 16.

Members of NASA’s Pegasus Barge crew meet with Artemis II crew members at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans July 15 and 16.

An aerial view of the Artemis II SLS core stage on a road. The core stage is a massive orange and white cylinder with four silver and red engines a...

These images and videos show team members moving the first core stage that will help launch the first crewed flight of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch S...

The Artemis II Core Stage moves from final assembly to the VAB at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in preparation for delivery to ...

This infographic labeled “SLS Block 1B Infographic” depicts the SLS (Space Launch System) in the Block 1B configuration that will be used begin...