Recognizing the dedication of the employees at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Michoud Assembly Facility, the "Michoud Hurricane Ride-Out Team", who risked their lives during Hurricane Katrina's assault on southeast Louisiana, and kept the generators and pumps running to protect the facilities and flight hardware, and whose dedication kept the Michoud Assembly Facility an island of dry land, which made it possible to resume External Tank production less than 5 weeks after the storm passed.

Commends the dedication of the 38 members of the "Michoud Hurricane Ride-Out Team" who stayed behind at the Michoud Assembly Facility of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and protected vital program assets, which enabled the facility to resume production of the Space Shuttle external tank within five weeks of Hurricane Katrina's landfall.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 892 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 892

Recognizing the dedication of the employees at the National Aeronautics 
  and Space Administration's Michoud Assembly Facility, the ``Michoud 
  Hurricane Ride-Out Team'', who risked their lives during Hurricane 
 Katrina's assault on southeast Louisiana, and kept the generators and 
pumps running to protect the facilities and flight hardware, and whose 
 dedication kept the Michoud Assembly Facility an island of dry land, 
 which made it possible to resume External Tank production less than 5 
                     weeks after the storm passed.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 26, 2006

 Mr. Melancon (for himself, Mr. Boehlert, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Calvert, and 
 Mr. Udall of Colorado) submitted the following resolution; which was 
                  referred to the Committee on Science

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Recognizing the dedication of the employees at the National Aeronautics 
  and Space Administration's Michoud Assembly Facility, the ``Michoud 
  Hurricane Ride-Out Team'', who risked their lives during Hurricane 
 Katrina's assault on southeast Louisiana, and kept the generators and 
pumps running to protect the facilities and flight hardware, and whose 
 dedication kept the Michoud Assembly Facility an island of dry land, 
 which made it possible to resume External Tank production less than 5 
                     weeks after the storm passed.

Whereas the Michoud Assembly Facility plays a vital role in the United States 
        manned space flight program, including production of the Shuttle 
        External Tank, a vital component of the Shuttle program;
Whereas the 37 members of the ``Michoud Hurricane Ride-Out Team'' who stayed 
        behind during Hurricane Katrina risked their lives in dedication to the 
        space program and faced down one of the greatest natural disasters in 
        this Nation's history, at great personal risk; and
Whereas, if not for the dedication of this team, the Michoud facility would have 
        suffered a great loss of National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
        assets and technology, which would have severely limited the National 
        Aeronautics and Space Administration's mission: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved,  That the House of Representatives commends the 
dedication of the 37 members of the ``Michoud Hurricane Ride-Out Team'' 
who stayed behind at the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration's Michoud Assembly Facility and protected vital program 
assets, which enabled the facility to resume production of the Shuttle 
External Tank within 5 weeks of Hurricane Katrina's landfall, including 
Ronald L. Adams, Jr. of New Orleans, LA, Joseph Charles Barrett of 
Metairie, LA, Donald K. Bollich of Metairie, LA, Frederick H. Castle of 
Bay Saint Louis, MS, Daniel Alvine Doell of Terrytown, LA, John Lee 
Fisher of Slidell, LA, James E. Ford II of Madisonville, LA, Stephen 
Lynn Francis of New Orleans, LA, Monroe Lewis Frazier Jr. of Harvey, 
LA, William Carl Hale III of Slidell, LA, Willie Frederick Henderson 
III of New Orleans, LA, Simmie Paul Herrin of Slidell, LA, Royal 
Kenneth Holland of New Orleans, LA, Ivory Jordan, Jr. of Lacombe, LA, 
Joe E. Kennedy of Pearl River, LA, Donald P. Leon Jr. of New Orleans, 
LA, Michael Wilson Moore of Metairie, LA, Daryl Ordes of Pearlington, 
MS, Michael A. Parquet of Slidell, LA, George Elson Rogers, Sr. of 
Kenner, LA, Steven L. Roshto Jr. of Slidell, LA, Alan J. Rovira of New 
Orleans, LA, Joan B. Savoy of Saint Bernard, LA, Vickie Ann Schmersahl 
of Slidell, LA, Patrick Shawn Shea of Mandeville, LA, Henry Peter 
Sissac Jr. of New Orleans, LA, Aline H. Sullwold of Picayune, MS, 
Richard Leowen Treat of Picayune, MS, Stephen Avery Turner of Slidell, 
LA, Byran Dale Walker of Picayune, MS, Edward Perry Watts Jr. of 
Metairie, LA, Reginald Bruce Williams of New Orleans, LA, Terry Michael 
Winchester of Slidell, LA, Malcolm Wayne Wood of Picayune, MS, Guy 
Mitchell Jackson of Chalmette, LA, and John Melvin Pucheu of Waveland, 
MS.
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