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1. NASA AWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND OPERATIONS CONTRACT
2. STS-135 MCC Status Report #23
3. STS-135 MCC Status Report #24

Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:16:15 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA AWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND OPERATIONS CONTRACT

July 19, 2011

Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749

Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Report #C11-031

NASA AWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND OPERATIONS CONTRACT

HOUSTON -- NASA has selected Navarro Research and Engineering Inc of Oak Ridge, Tenn , to provide environmental management and services at the agency's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N M

The White Sands Test Facility Environmental Compliance and Operations contract calls for a fixed-price one-year and seven month base period with a potential value of $3 1 million, and four one-year options with a total potential fixed-price value of $6 6 million Based on variable funding and work requirements, the entire maximum potential value of the contract is $80 million

Navarro's work includes hazardous waste management and operating permit compliance; management of the large-scale groundwater monitoring program; environmental clean-up projects and field investigations; air permit and emission inventory requirements; drinking water system compliance; petroleum tank system management; National Environmental Policy Act project evaluations; and recycling, waste minimization and pollution prevention

This is a new contract award (NNJ11HB30C) as a result of Protest B-404880 1, B-404880 2 and the Agency Corrective Action Plan filed with the U S Government Accountability Office on May 24 Due to the protest, the period of performance is revised from the original two-year base period The base period of performance for the contract is now one-year and seven months and is scheduled to begin on Sept 1 and extend through April 30, 2013 One-year options are available during the following four years The contract is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with cost-plus-fixed-fee and fixed-price task orders The significant subcontractor on the contract is URS Group Inc of Oak Ridge

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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:30:09 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-135 MCC Status Report #23

STS-135 Report #23 4 p m CDT Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station early Tuesday, marking the end of shuttle visits to the orbiting laboratory that owes much of its existence to the 37 flights they made to help build and maintain it

The 1:28 a m undocking ended an Atlantis stay at the station of eight days, 15 hours and 21 minutes All in all, Atlantis and its sister shuttles spent a total of 276 days, 11 hours and 23 minutes docked at the station

After undocking, Atlantis moved slowly away, to a point about 600 feet ahead of the station, Pilot Doug Hurley paused Atlantis before beginning a final fly around that was in some ways a first Before Atlantis began the half loop around the station, the orbiting laboratory changed its orientation by rotating 90 degrees to the right

That gave Atlantis video and still cameras a chance to photograph areas of the station not normally documented in previous fly-arounds The images will be evaluated by experts on the ground to get additional information on the station�s conditions

Teams in both flight control rooms were working their last shuttle shift Atlantis Commander Chris Ferguson thanked the orbit 1 team of shuttle flight controllers He urged them to pause a moment on their way out and �make a memory �

From the station flight control room, astronaut and Capcom Dan Tani, himself a former station crew member, told Ferguson that it had been �a pleasure and an honor� to support the mission �We are proud to be the last of a countless line of mission control teams� who have watched while shuttles visited the ISS �The ISS wouldn�t be here without the shuttle �

�It�s been an incredible ride�, replied Ferguson �On behalf of the four of us, we�re really appreciative we had the opportunity to work with you on this pivotal mission �

After completing the half loop, Atlantis did two separation burns, the second at 3:18 a m to move away from the station

After their midday meal, Ferguson, Hurley and Mission Specialist Sandra Magnus did the late survey of Atlantis� heat shield, focused on the reinforced carbon carbon of the wing leading edges and the nose cap They used the shuttle robotic arm and its 50-foot orbiter boom sensor system to look first at the starboard wing, then the nose cap and finally the port wing

Data from the survey will be transmitted to the ground for evaluation by experts

Atlantis is scheduled to land at Kennedy Space center just before 5 a m on Thursday

The next status report will be issued after crew wakeup, scheduled for 8:59 p m Tuesday

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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:43:24 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-135 MCC Status Report #24

STS-135 Report #24 Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 9 p m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON � The final shuttle crew�s final full day in space began with a fanfare � literally � and fond greetings from Florida

Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim woke up at 8:32 p m to Aaron Copland�s �Fanfare for the Common Man � It was followed by a prerecorded message from Kennedy Space Center employees

�Three � two � one � Good morning, Atlantis!� the group said �Kennedy salutes you See you back at wheels stop!�

Kennedy is, of course, home to the space shuttle fleet, along with its launch pads and the people who prepared the shuttles for each trip into space Atlantis is scheduled to land at the Shuttle Landing Facility in Kennedy on Thursday

Before it does so, however, the STS-135 crew will spend the day checking out the shuttle�s flight control surfaces and hot firing its reaction control system jets, making sure everything is ready for deorbit They�ll also pause in their work for one last round of interviews with reporters back home � at 3:44 a m , the crew will be talking with ABC News, CBS News, CNN, FoxNews and NBC News

Meanwhile, here on the ground, another United States icon will pay its own tribute to Atlantis� mission The Empire State Building in New York City � instantly recognizable, just as the NASA space shuttle is � will celebrate the Space Shuttle Program Wednesday night by lighting the way home for Atlantis and its crew

To honor 30 years of space shuttle flights on 135 missions, the Empire State Building will glow Red, White and Blue throughout the night Wednesday as Atlantis prepares to return home ending the last ever shuttle flight The ESB lighting schedule can be viewed at http://www esbnyc com/

The next status report will be issued at the end of the crew�s day or earlier if warranted Atlantis� crew is scheduled to go to sleep just before 1 p m on Wednesday -end-

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