GNO, Inc. Sunday Night Highlight – New Orleans Firm Selected to Help Build New American Space Station 🛰️

For more than 60 years, Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans East has been where America builds its spaceships, from the Apollo era to the Space Shuttle program to today’s Artemis work. This week saw a clear indication that the next chapter of “GNO in Space” is being written, in bold.

New Orleans-based Vivace International Corporation has been selected to support Starlab, a $3B commercial space station concept being developed as NASA plans for the International Space Station’s retirement at the end of the decade. Vivace’s role includes engineering, design, and fabrication work that will be performed at its Michoud facility; Luke Wright, the company’s top executive (and New Orleans native), said the contract and several others in the pipeline will bring hundreds of high-tech jobs to Michoud.

“This will accelerate our country’s ability to beat our adversaries to the moon and our general defense posture,” Wright said during a tour of Vivace’s 150,000-square-foot Michoud production space. “It’s also important to this area because Michoud has provided quality jobs for engineers and highly skilled technicians for years. We’re going to capitalize on that for aerospace, space travel, and national defense.”

As national priorities shift toward a more commercially driven space economy, New Orleans is well-positioned to continue leading as a place where complex, mission-critical structures get built.

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