NASA has chosen the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to construct some of the components of its new heavy-lift rocket, says U.S. Sen. David Vitter. The rocket’s design was unveiled by NASA on Sept. 14. NASA says it will be the largest, most powerful space rocket ever built. However, Congress has yet to approve the project, which, by some estimates, carries a price tag of up to $35 billion. Michoud has been looking for a new space mission since the end of the shuttle program, during which it employed as many as 5,000 people in New Orleans constructing the shuttle’s huge outside fuel tank.
Part of NASA rocket to be built in New Orleans
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