Re: NASA Awards Shuttle/Space Station Engineering Support Contract

"Jacques van Oene" wrote
> Jan. 18, 2006
>
> ...CONTRACT RELEASE: C06-001
>
> NASA AWARDS SHUTTLE/SPACE STATION ENGINEERING SUPPORT CONTRACT
>
> NASA has awarded a $34 million contract to The Charles Stark Draper
> Laboratory, Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., to provide engineering
> development and analysis for the space shuttle and International
> Space Station. The work will support the guidance, navigation,
> control and integrated avionics systems of the shuttle and station.
>
> The cost-plus-fixed-fee award contract begins Feb. 1, 2006, with a
> two-year base period. The base period is followed by one two-year
> extension option and one eight-month extension option, making the
> total potential contract length four years and eight months.

Coincidence?
PRESS RELEASE
Date Released: Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Source: Johnson Space Center

"NASA Seeks Proposals for Crew and Cargo Transportation to Orbit "

http://procurement.jsc.nasa.gov/cots/COTS%20Final%20Announcement.doc

"...For the first time, NASA is seeking non-government vehicles and 
commercial services to provide crew and cargo transportation for human space 
flight..."


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