China, India, Europe, Japan, Russia the list goes on - At no time over the five decades of sending robot craft into the heavens have so many spacecraft been on duty at such a variety of far-flung destinations or en route to their targets.
There is a constant stream of new and existing projects shooting up to the stars and this is before space tourism takes off in a big way.
However for New Orleans this is the best news since sliced bread as three contracts associated with NASA's Constellation program have landed at Michoud. James Bray, director of Lockheed Martin's Orion project at Michoud, called the facility "a sleeping giant" for the New Orleans economy.
With 2,400 workers, Michoud is a major economic force in a section of the city which was hit hard by Katrina and has been slow to recover.
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