Aug 17 1984
From The Space Library
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NASA announced that it had selected United Space Boosters Inc. (USBI), Huntsville, Ala., to receive a $274 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to manufacture, assemble, and refurbish solid-fuel rocket boosters for the Space Shuttle. The approximately five-year contract would require USBI to manufacture, assemble, check out, and deliver 84 flight sets of solid-fuel rocket boosters and to refurbish them when returned to Earth after each launch. The contract, to be managed by MSFC, also launched two unpriced options, each for the delivery of 60 flight sets, covering a total additional period of performance of about five years.
Under a separate contract, USBI would build a new facility at KSC for booster assembly and refurbishment, at a cost of $21 million. In the past, refurbishment had taken place at Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), which was used to assemble the entire configuration of orbiter, boosters, and external tank. (NASA Release 84-118; MSFC Release 84-75)
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