The first page contains a typed routing slip. A list of Wernher von Braun's meetings with President Kennedy, the Vice President and members of their immediate staff.
This paper considers many of the factors and criteria which have to be considered and evaluated when selecting a specific rocket engine for a given vehicle application. The lists of criteria can be helpful as checklists in design and systems engineering of a rocket propulsion device. About ten different applications are examined to illustrate the relative importance of some of these selection criteria. There will be groupings of our major types of criteria; namely, performance, operational, economic and so-called judgment criteria. In many cases the last three categories are equally or more important than the performance criteria in selecting one of several rocket engines for a specific application. The actual selection usually is a compromise to make the rocket engine responsive to several important criteria.
This document includes a brief history of MSFC facilities, defunct names used by various Redstone located missile organizations, Michoud facilities history, the Slidell Operations Office history, the Mississippi Test Facility (MTF) history, and detailed description of technical facilities for the MSFC R&D Laboratories. The final section presents a detailed breakdown of property and facility values for various MSFC facilities over a period of time.