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The central point skywalk is being built at NASA's Michoud Hall Installation in New Orleans stopping at best mechanized provisions. Michoud is a personality revolutionary mechanized installation anywhere NASA has built spacecraft components for decades - most in the last part, the space shuttle's external tanks.

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