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The Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has numerous spacecraft design challenges past, present, and future. Many of these tasks require multidiscipline analyses to develop a complete design. Telescopes, turbomachinery, furnaces, and payload carrier equipment are a few examples of projects at the Center which have required a crossflow of data between two or more disciplines. Disciplines involved in these tasks have included design, computational fluid dynamics, aerodynamics/heating, thermal control, stress, structural dynamics, pointing and controls, and optics to produce an integrated product. The flow of input/output data and interactions between the various disciplines have been the subject of a recent internal study at the Center. Software packages, as well as the organizational structure necessary to create the best environment for the union of interdisciplinary outputs/inputs, are of special interest.