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NASA Extends Space Station Cargo Delivery Contract

Written by thomas · Filed Under Aeronautics News 

July 9, 2008

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HOUSTON, July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA has awarded Lockheed
Martin Integrated Systems Inc. in Houston, a one-year contract extension
valued at $42 million to provide integration services for cargo delivery to
and from the International Space Station.

Lockheed Martin has held the station’s cargo mission contract since
January 2004. The one-year extension will bring the total value of the
contract to $338 million.

The contract provides cargo packing for delivery to and from the space
station, consisting of pressurized and unpressurized science and logistics
carriers, assembly hardware and crew support. It also involves determining
the most efficient way to pack the cargo, verifying the adequacy of the
integrated carriers, packing the pressurized cargo into sub-carriers and
returning the cargo to the providers once it returns to Earth. The contract
also provides sustaining engineering for NASA carriers.

The extension begins Oct. 1, 2008, and is the first of two such options
provided for in the original contract.

Major subcontractors include United Space Alliance LLC and Bastion
Technologies Inc., both in Houston; Command Technologies Inc. in Warrenton,
Va.; Teledyne Brown Engineering Inc. in Huntsville, Ala., and EADS Astrium
Space Transportation, Bremen, Germany. The work will be performed at NASA’s
Johnson Space Center in Houston and at the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in
Florida.

For more information about the space station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

SOURCE NASA

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