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1. NASA EXTENDS SPACE STATION CARGO DELIVERY CONTRACT

Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:03:43 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA EXTENDS SPACE STATION CARGO DELIVERY CONTRACT

July 8, 2008

Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602

Report #H08-045

NASA EXTENDS SPACE STATION CARGO DELIVERY CONTRACT

HOUSTON - 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

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