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.

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

H. Res. 892

In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

July 24, 2006.
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 38 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
38 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, Ernest Graham of Picayune,
MS, 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, Guy Mitchell Jackson of Chalmette, 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, John Melvin Pucheu of Waveland, MS,
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, Steve Thompson
of Huntsville, AL, 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, Roland C. Williams of New Orleans, LA, Terry Michael Winchester of
Slidell, LA, and Malcolm Wayne Wood of Picayune, MS.
Attest:

Clerk.