Msfc

At MSFC, von Braun established the Lunar Roving Task team, and in May 1969, NASA selected the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) for use in manned lunar missions and approved the Manned Lunar Rover Vehicle Program as a MSFC hardware development.

Firefighters and MSFC were finally able to get the massive blaze contained around 7 p.m. The cause of both fires is currently under investigation.

Given its storied history in X-ray optics, MSFC is uniquely poised to fulfill requirements for large or small, medium- or high-angular-resolution X-ray optics.

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Alabama played a central role in developing the Saturn rockets that powered the Apollo rocket program, and apparently it had one of the earliest models just lying around after all these years.

All of the first MSFC studies were based on this dual-launch assumption, allowing a large, heavy, roving vehicle.

An MSFC report said that Lockheed tended to rely on NASA directions rather than take their own initiative in the construction.

From the start of MSFC, Huntsville, Alabama -based Brown Engineering Company (BECO) had participated in all of its lunar mobility efforts.

MSFC built a small test track with craters and rock debris where the LSSM and MOLAB MTAs were compared; it was soon obvious that a small rover would be best for the proposed missions.

MSFC commissioned the optics company Perkin-Elmer to design and build the Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA) and Fine Guidance Sensors for the space telescope.

On July 1, 1962, the Launch Operations Directorate was separated from MSFC to become the Launch Operations Center (LOC).

The MSFC Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) was responsible for predicting surface properties.