This temporary element attached to the use of the structure left the way open to continuous suggestion of sites for operation. In fact, recommendations were being made for a period of 20 months. Some of the places considered included the Chrysler San Leandro, California Plant; Michoud Ordnance Plant, New Orleans, Louisiana, where Chrysler had an operation during World War II; and Limestone Cave near Nashville, Tennessee. Finally, on 31 October 1957, NIRAP was selected as the permanent production site, and the installation was renamed the Michigan Ordnance Missile Plant [under the Chrysler Corporation Missile Division banner]. This gave Chrysler 1.649 million square feet of space that could be devoted to manufacturing and 120,000 square feet of administrative space 22 . Facilities, Redstone Arsenal Construction of missile development facilities at Redstone also caused considerable attention. As earlier mentioned, existing facilities at the arsenal had been a major factor in its selection as the site to develop the IRBM. This situation had not come about over¬night, nor were the facilities, as existed in 1956, considered adequate to accomplish the task at hand. Buildup for missile development programs at Redstone actually started in 1950 when the Chief of Ordnance selected the site because it appeared to lend itself to guided missile research programs. This decision was quite appropriate in that year, but the facilities had been built during war time, with only a five- year life expectancy. Buildings that had aided Redstone's wartime chemical mission had been rehabilitated ______________________________

22. Msg, COFORD to ABMA, 31 Oct 57, cited in AOMC Ball Msl Ref Book, subj: JUP Chronology. 23. J. G. Zierdt, Chf, ABMA Cont Off, 28 Apr 56, subj: FY 57 MCA Const in the JUP Prog, in ABMA Ref Book, subj: Facil, MCA, Hist Off files.