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Officials tout recent flurry of expansions at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans East

Source: theadvocate.com - Nov 2, 2017

Recent tenant expansions at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility have spurred nearly 250 new jobs in the aerospace and advanced manufacturing sectors, building on the New Orleans East facility's central role in developing the world's most powerful rocket.

Chicago-based Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company, added about 200 workers this year, bringing its tally to roughly 600, officials said Wednesday. The bulk of them are working on NASA's Space Launch System, the mega-rock designed to transport astronauts into deep space by 2025 and Mars not long after.

As the space industry grows, Boeing expects to add more jobs, officials said.

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