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Michoud Assembly Facility (Images of America)

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After an auspicious beginning as a royal land grant from French king Louis XV to a rich French citizen of New Orleans in 1763, the land Michoud Assembly Facility occupies remained in private ownership until 1940, when it used to be sold to the USA government. Prior to World War II, the web site used to be used to grow sugar, hunt muskrat, and build railroad and telephone lines. In 1941, the world’s largest industrial web site used to be built, covering 43 acres of unobstructed, low-humidity, air-cooled space under one roof to construct C-46 cargo planes. The Korean War required the assembly of Sherman and Patton tanks there, whilst the space race compelled the design and assembly of the colossal Saturn I, IB, and V rocket boosters for the Apollo program that reported right away to Dr. Wernher von Braun. The 1970s saw the fabrication of the giant external tank for the Space Travel program. These days, Michoud Assembly Facility continues to improve the USA space program by building major components for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (or MPCV).

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