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1. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS LAND SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN
2. NASA SELECTS ENGINEERING PRODUCT INTEGRATION CONTRACTOR

Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:42:10 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS LAND SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN

September 17, 2012

Jenny Knotts Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Trent J Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #H12-325

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS LAND SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN

HOUSTON -- Three members of the Expedition 32 crew undocked from the International Space Station and returned safely to Earth on Sunday, wrapping up a mission lasting more than four months

Flight Engineer Joe Acaba of NASA, and Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin of the Russian Federal Space Agency, undocked their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft from the space station at 7:09 p m EDT and landed north of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 10:53 p m (8:53 a m , Sept 17, Kazakhstan time) The trio arrived at the station May 17 and spent 125 days in space, 123 of which were aboard the orbiting laboratory

After the Soyuz spacecraft separated from the space station, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams took command of Expedition 33 Williams is the second woman to command the station She and her crewmates, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, will work aboard the station as a three-person crew until the arrival of three new crew members, including NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, in mid-October

Acaba, Padalka and Revin orbited Earth 2,000 times and traveled 52,906,428 miles Padalka now ranks fourth for the most days spent in space -- a total of 711 days during four flights

To follow Twitter updates from NASA's Expedition 33 astronauts, visit:

http://twitter com/Astro_Suni

and

https://twitter com/Aki_Hoshide

For more information about the International Space Station and its crew, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:46:18 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA SELECTS ENGINEERING PRODUCT INTEGRATION CONTRACTOR

September 17, 2012

Dan Huot Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761

Report #C12-049

NASA SELECTS ENGINEERING PRODUCT INTEGRATION CONTRACTOR

HOUSTON -- NASA has selected S&K Global Solutions LLC of Polson, Mont , to consolidate contractor support into an integrated infrastructure approach for the Engineering Directorate at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston

The three-year, cost-plus fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract begins Oct 18, 2012, and includes a single two-year option Work worth as much as $49 9 million may be authorized during the potential five-year duration of the contract

Under the contract, S&K Global will provide computer support and application services to coordinate information technology needs and web-based applications and information sites to efficiently generate and disseminate directorate products The firm also will provide strategic planning and process improvements to optimize the creation, assessment and integration of directorate products S&K also will perform configuration management and project facilitation tasks to document, track and control directorate products

Subcontractors working on the contract include Booz Allen Hamilton of McLean, Va , and S&K Aerospace LLC of St Ignatius, Mont

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http://www nasa gov

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