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.
Silicon Valley is a leading hub and startup ecosystem for high-tech innovation and development, accounting for one-third of all of the venture capital investment in the United States.he word valley refers to the Santa Clara Valley where the region has traditionally been centered, which includes the city of San Jose and surrounding cities and towns. The word silicon originally referred to the large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers in the region.