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Parts for new mini-shuttle being built at Michoud

By Janet McConnaughey
Published March 25, 2014 10:27pm ET
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Parts for new mini-shuttle being built at Michoud
Mark Moody, an employee of Lockheed Martin Corp., works on preparations for a brace for the Dream Chaser mini-space shuttle designed by Sierra Nevada Corp. - one of three companies working on spacecraft to get NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Shuttle. Lockheed Martin also has two other, unrelated, projects at Michoud Assembly Facility in eastern New Orleans - a campus where thousands of people worked in the 1980s to build space shuttle fuel tanks. (AP Photo/Janet McConnaughey) | Janet McConnaughey

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Lockheed Martin is working in New Orleans on parts for the Dream Chaser, a mini-shuttle designed to take NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

That’s among a number of space-related projects underway at the Michoud Assembly Facility in eastern New Orleans, where about 5,000 people built space shuttle fuel tanks in the 1980s. NASA retired the shuttles in 2011; Lockheed Martin Corp. built the last fuel tank in 2010.

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