Date: October 1st 2009

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NEW SPACE STATION CREW LAUNCHES; IN-ORBIT NEWS CONFERENCE SET
NASA EXTENDS JOHNSON SPACE CENTER SUPPORT CONTRACT

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:09:13 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NEW SPACE STATION CREW LAUNCHES; IN-ORBIT NEWS CONFERENCE SET

September 30, 2009

Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #H09-226

NEW SPACE STATION CREW LAUNCHES; IN-ORBIT NEWS CONFERENCE SET

HOUSTON -- The next residents of the International Space Station launched into orbit aboard a Soyuz spacecraft Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian cosmonaut Max Suraev and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte lifted off at 2:14 a m CDT

Future Expedition 22 Commander Williams, Soyuz Commander Suraev and Laliberte are scheduled to dock with the station at 3:37 a m , Friday, Oct 2 They will spend nine days as members of a joint crew that includes Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA's Mike Barratt and Nicole Stott, the European Space Agency's Frank De Winne, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and the Canadian Space Agency's Bob Thirsk

The nine spacefarers will answer questions from reporters during a news conference from the complex at 9:10 a m Oct 6 The 30-minute news conference will be divided for U S journalists at NASA centers, Canadian media representatives at the Canadian Space Agency's headquarters in Quebec and European reporters It will be broadcast live on NASA Television For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

On Oct 10, Padalka will transfer command of the station to De Winne, who will become commander of the next station mission, designated Expedition 21 Padalka, Barratt and Laliberte will land in Kazakhstan at about 11:29 p m Padalka and Barratt have been aboard the orbiting laboratory since March 2009

Laliberte, a Canadian citizen and the founder of Cirque du Soleil, is flying to the station under an agreement between the Russian Federal Space Agency and Space Adventures, Ltd He will spend nine days aboard the orbiting laboratory

For more information about the space station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:03:59 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA EXTENDS JOHNSON SPACE CENTER SUPPORT CONTRACT

September 30, 2009

James A Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #C09-050

NASA EXTENDS JOHNSON SPACE CENTER SUPPORT CONTRACT

HOUSTON -- NASA has awarded a three-year contract extension to Jacobs Technology Inc of Tullahoma, Tenn , for engineering and science support at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston

The contract extension has an estimated value of $978 million The extension brings the total contract value to approximately $2 16 billion through Jan 31, 2013, with an eight year total period of performance

Work will be performed primarily at Johnson Services are provided to Johnson's Engineering Directorate and Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science office

The extension provides:

Continuity of engineering operations, analysis, and hardware and systems certification for fly-out of the Space Shuttle Program

Continuity of engineering development, operations, and hardware and systems certification for the International Space Station during the initial six-person crew on-orbit operations, the last shuttle flight to the station, space station assembly completion, Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, the European Automated Transfer Vehicle and the Japanese H-2 Transfer Vehicle

Completion of major milestones for design, development, test and evaluation of government-furnished equipment for the Orion spacecraft and critical test beds supporting the development of Orion

The engineering science contract is a hybrid cost-plus-award-fee, firm-fixed-price contract It includes a baseline effort, an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity effort, and a level-of-effort requirement

The prime contractor, Jacobs Sverdrup, will manage the effort from Houston Major subcontractors include ERC Inc and Manufacturing Technical Solutions Inc of Huntsville, Ala , and Barrios Technology Ltd , GeoControl Systems Inc , Hamilton Sundstrand Management Services Inc and Muniz Engineering Inc of Houston

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www nasa gov

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 25 Sep 2009 to 1 Oct 2009 (#2009-111)

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