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 a whoâs who of high-tech powerhousesâincluding Apple, Cisco Systems, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intuit, Oracle and YahooâSilicon Valley in California boasts achievements and influence that extend well beyond the San Francisco Bay Area. But itâs the people that make the Silicon Valley IT companies tick. And theyâre a pretty impressive bunch. Approximately 45 percent of the general Valley population has at least an undergraduate university degree, compared with 28 percent for the United States as a whole.