NASA versus Katrina: August 29, 2005
From the archives: How 38 NASA employees kept the program alive amid the devastating hurricane.
Nathan Mattise
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Series: Michoud: NASA's overlooked chapter
How I learned to stop worrying and love the big $60B NASA rocket
OK, maybe we don’t love the massive SLS. But we’re learning to live with it.
Eric Berger
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ET-94—NASA’s last external tank at Michoud—sets sail for California retirement
Site produced more than 130 ETs, but the last one is headed for a science museum.
Nathan Mattise
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Meet NCAM, the researchers helping NASA go “to the Moon, to Mars, and beyond”
Before tools get to work and hardware launches, this research group helps NASA with R&D.
Nathan Mattise and Jennifer Hahn
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Looks aside, NASA’s Orion is “lightyears ahead of what they had in Apollo”
Redundancy is key to travel “farther away than any human spacecraft has ever been.”
Nathan Mattise and Jennifer Hahn
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For rockets going farther than ever, you need the best and biggest tools
Among NASA Michoud’s unique gear: A 170-foot-tall, 78-foot-wide welding tool.
Nathan Mattise and Jennifer Hahn
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Where are NASA’s rockets born? “To go to space, it must come through New Orleans”
Since Saturn I and V, the Michoud Assembly Facility has been the start of space travel.
Nathan Mattise and Jennifer Hahn
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