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.
By Kimberly Amadeo. Definition: Silicon Valley is the center for innovative technology companies. It's located in the are around San Francisco, California.It's home to 2,000 tech companies, the densest concentration in the world. This proximity to suppliers, customers, and cutting edge research gives each a competitive advantage.ilicon Valley Companies. The most well-known Silicon Valley companies include Adobe, Apple, Cisco, eBay, Facebook, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Intuit, Netflix, Oracle, Salesforce.com, Tesla, Twitter, Yahoo! and Zynga.