Apollo 11 Manned Flight Awareness Poster & Card, NASA Michoud Assembly Facility

Description

Apollo 11 Manned Flight Awareness Poster & Card for The NASA Michoud Assembly Facility
The NASA Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF)
is an 832-acre manufacturing complex owned by
NASA
in
New Orleans East
, a district within
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.
Vintage NASA Lithograph portrait of an artist’s image’s of the Apollo 11 Astronauts.
Also included is a Rare
Apollo 11 mission emblem card.
Both Portrait and Card have the Signatures of the Apollo 11 crewmembers.
The text at the top left reads:
Apollo 11, the NASA Meatball logo, and 506 which stands for (AS-506) Apollo Saturn 5 space vehicle.
The text at the lower right hand corner reads:
“NASA - Michoud Assembly Facility - 1969   - New Orleans, Louisiana 70129”.
Portrait size, 8.5 x 11 inches. Mission emblem card size is 4 X 3 inches.
Items are in Excellent used condition
with no tears, dog ears, writing, or folds. The Graphics are Bright and Clear.
Please see all attached pictures.
Shipping includes a Tracking Number.
The NASA Michoud Assembly Facility was originally constructed in 1940 at the village of
Michoud, Louisiana
, by the Higgins-Tucker division of
Higgins Industries
under the direction of
Andrew Jackson Higgins
. Construction was done on behalf of the United States government for the war production during
World War II
of plywood
C-76 cargo planes
and
landing craft
.
It came under the management of NASA in 1961, and was used for the construction of the
S-IC
first stage of the
Saturn V
rockets and the
S-IB
first stage of the
Saturn IB
rockets built by Chrysler Corporation. It is home to the first stage of the last-constructed Saturn V, SA-515, built by The Boeing Company. The factory's ceiling height limitation - 12 meters, was unable to allow the construction of the bigger
Saturn C-8
direct Moon vehicle, was one of the major reasons why the smaller C-5 (later renamed Saturn V) was chosen instead of the originally planned Moon vehicle. The runway was slowly transformed into Saturn Boulevard in the 1960s with the middle becoming a heliport and decommissioned by the 1970s.
The majority of the NASA factory's history was focused on construction and production of NASA's
Space Shuttle external tank
(ET). Beginning with the rollout of ET-1 on June 29, 1979, which flew on
STS-1
, 136 tanks were produced throughout the Space Shuttle program, ending with the flight-ready tank ET-122, which flew on
STS-134
, rolled out on September 20, 2010. A single tank produced at the facility, ET-94, was not used in spaceflight and remained at Michoud as a
test article
.
Modular parts for the
International Space Station
were
fabricated
at the facility in the mid 1990s until 2010.