The project to create the International Space Station required the utilization and/or construction of new and existing manufacturing facilities around the world, mostly in the United States and Europe. The agencies overseeing the manufacturing involved NASA, Roscosmos, the European Space Agency, JAXA, and the Canadian Space Agency. Hundreds of contractors working for the five space agencies were assigned the task of fabricating the modules, trusses, experiments and other hardware elements for the station.
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Michoud Assembly Facility
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The Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) is an 832-acre manufacturing complex owned by NASA in New Orleans East, a section of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. Organizationally it is part of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and is currently a multi-tenant complex to allow commercial and government contractors, as well as government agencies, to use the site.
First stages of Saturn V rockets being assembled at the Michoud factory in the 1960s
A section of eastern New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The Michaud Assembly Facility (MAF) at right (green) is not flooded, while the surrounding neighborhoods (dark greenish brown) are extensively flooded.
Welding of the SLS liquid oxygen tank in the South Vertical Assembly Building