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NASA extends Boeing contract
By MARY ALYS CHERRY
NASA has awarded The Boeing Co. a two-year, $650 million contract extension to continue engineering support of the International Space Station until Sept. 30, 2010.
The action extended the contract the space agency awarded the company in 1995.
Work under the contract extension, NASA said, “will include completion of delivery and on-orbit acceptance of the U.S. segment of the station, sustaining engineering of station hardware and software, support of U.S. hardware and software provided to international partners and participants in the station program and end-to-end subsystem management for the majority of station systems.”
“This contract extension allows NASA and the United States to stay on the right path to complete the station by 2010,” said Brewster Shaw, vice president and general manager of Boeing’s Space Exploration Division.
“Boeing is pleased that NASA continues to have confidence in the company’s ability to support the agency’s exploration mission.”
Work on the contract will be performed at Johnson Space Center and at Kennedy and Marshall space centers.
The ISS is a test bed for building and maintaining large structures in space and a laboratory for conducting science and technology research. Structures and technologies needed for living on the moon and for Mars exploration will be realized through experiments on the station, Shaw said.
Space Shuttle Endeavour will return to the space station in November for the first of six remaining assembly missions.
The action extended the contract the space agency awarded the company in 1995.
Work under the contract extension, NASA said, “will include completion of delivery and on-orbit acceptance of the U.S. segment of the station, sustaining engineering of station hardware and software, support of U.S. hardware and software provided to international partners and participants in the station program and end-to-end subsystem management for the majority of station systems.”
“This contract extension allows NASA and the United States to stay on the right path to complete the station by 2010,” said Brewster Shaw, vice president and general manager of Boeing’s Space Exploration Division.
“Boeing is pleased that NASA continues to have confidence in the company’s ability to support the agency’s exploration mission.”
Work on the contract will be performed at Johnson Space Center and at Kennedy and Marshall space centers.
The ISS is a test bed for building and maintaining large structures in space and a laboratory for conducting science and technology research. Structures and technologies needed for living on the moon and for Mars exploration will be realized through experiments on the station, Shaw said.
Space Shuttle Endeavour will return to the space station in November for the first of six remaining assembly missions.
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