Much of the Michoud Assembly Facility's NASA history was focused on construction and production of NASA's External Tank (ET).
Silicon Valley is an area that located on the San Francisco, California, peninsula, radiates outward from Stanford University. It is contained by the San Francisco Bay on the east, the Santa Cruz Mountains on the west, and the Coast Range to the southeast.
Where is Stanford? Silicon Valley. Located 35 miles south of San Francisco and 20 miles north of San Jose, Stanford University is in the heart of Northern Californiaâs dynamic Silicon Valley,â home to Yahoo!, Google, Hewlett-Packard, and many other cutting-edge companies that were started by and continue to be led by Stanford alumni and faculty.