NASA Extends Contract With United Space Alliance

WASHINGTON -- NASA has extended the Space Program Operations Contract with United Space Alliance, LLC, of Houston to March 31, 2011. The $909,593,590 contract extension supports flight operations for the
Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs.
The contract provides mission design and planning, astronaut and
flight controller training, system integration, flight operations,
vehicle processing, launch and recovery, vehicle sustaining
engineering, and flight crew equipment processing. This is a cost
reimbursement contract with award and performance fees.

Work will be performed at United Space Alliance facilities in Houston,
Huntsville, Ala., and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as well as
major subcontractor facilities in Huntington Beach, Calif., Houston,
and Cape Canaveral, Fla. Significant subcontractors include Barrios
Technology, LTD of Houston, Bastion Technologies, Inc. of Houston,
Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems of Newtown, Pa., Pratt
Whitney Rocketdyne of Canoga Park, Calif., and The Boeing Company of Houston.

For more information about the space shuttle, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle

For more information about the space station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

Source: NASA