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.
Home to Stanford University and considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto is nestled between California's coast and the Skyline Ridge mountains. A small city with roughly 61,000 residents, Palo Alto is home to only one municipal airport, but international airports are only a half-hour drive from the city.