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| NASA Extends Contract With United Space Alliance |
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| Monday, August 30 2010 @ 04:58 PM MST
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WASHINGTON, DC - 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.
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UPDATE: The line was repaired this afternoon and managers have tentatively reset Discovery's rollover for 6:30 a.m. EDT tomorrow morning. The short delay isn't expected to impact the shuttle's targeted November 1 launch date.
HOUSTON, TX - If you like music, the space program and are a little nostalgic, NASA has the perfect opportunity for you. For the first time, the public can help choose songs to wake up the astronauts during the last two scheduled space shuttle missions.
Russian flight controllers are scrambling to determine why the Progress 38 (M-06M) resupply spacecraft failed to dock with the International Space Station today, sailing past the orbiting complex as the six astronatus on-board watched during a few heart-stopping moments before it was determined that craft automatically aborted its rendezvous and guided itself safely past the station instead of careening out of control.
BAIKONUR COSMODROME, KAZAHKSTAN - Three new residents blasted off for the space station this evening and headed for a rendezvous with the other half of the Expedition 24 crew already working aboard the complex. The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft lifted off on time at 5:35 p.m. EDT from Baikonur Cosmodrome on the steppes of Kazahkstan and, after nine minutes of a picture-perfect ascent settled into preliminary orbit as the crew set about preparing for docking with the station on June 17 for a six-month stay on the orbiting laboratory.
Three space station residents safely returned to Earth June 1, parachuting to landing in Kazahkstan to complete a five and a half tour of duty on board the International Space Station. Soyuz TMA-17 with Expedition 23 crewmembers Oleg Kotov, the outgoing commander, and flight engineers Timothy Creamer and Soichi Noguchi, touched down in the target landing zone on time at 11:35 p.m. EDT.
There are three new Expedition 23 crew members aboard the International Space Station. Following the completion of leak checks, the hatches between the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft and the station were opened at 3:19 a.m. EDT Sunday.
BAIKONUR COSMODROME, KAZAKHSTAN - The three newest crew members to take up residence at the International Space Station blasted off into orbit today on board a Russian Soyuz launch vehicle from the spaceport in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The three space travelers will join another three astronauts already on the space station to form the Expedition 23 long-duration crew on the orbital complex.
Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Max Suraev landed their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft on the steppes of Kazakhstan on March 18, 2010, wrapping up a five-and-a-half-month stay aboard the International Space Station. Suraev, the Soyuz commander, was at the controls of the spacecraft as it undocked at 4:03 a.m. EDT from the station's Poisk module. The duo landed at 7:24 a.m. at a site northeast of the Kazakh town of Arkalyk.
With a thunderous roar, fire and smoke that rose hundreds of feet into the cold air above the snowy hills outside Promontory, Utah, captive space shuttle reusable solid rocket motor came to life as manufacturer Alliant Techsystem and NASA conducted the final ground test firing of the workhorse motor to complete a 30 year development and test program to provide reliable solid-fuel boost propulsion for the shuttle program. The final test firing will allow ATK to support the final four space shuttle launches this year and begin the company's transition from the shuttle program and to the future.
