May 10 2013
From The Space Library
RELEASE: C13-024 - NASA EXTENDS SAFETY AND MISSION ASSURANCE CONTRACT AT MARSHALL HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA has exercised a second two-year award term option with Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston for continued services to support the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The contract is a cost-plus award-fee with award-term arrangements. The current potential value of the contract, including this $82 million option, is $332 million. Subsequent unexercised options and award terms extend the total period of performance to Jan. 31, 2017, with a total potential value of more than $376 million. Under the award-term arrangement of the contract, the company has earned two additional years of performance beginning Feb. 1, 2014 through Jan. 31, 2016. Bastion Technologies Inc. continues to provide services, equipment and supplies associated with industrial and system safety, reliability, and maintainability engineering. The work is associated with design and development engineering and testing performed by Marshall. The contract also provides safety and mission assurance management information, quality assurance and engineering, independent assessment services and documentation, project assurance and risk management.
MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-073 - MEDIA ACCREDITATION OPEN FOR LAUNCH OF NASA'S NEXT MISSION TO MARS --CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- International and U.S. media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission. Liftoff is scheduled for 1:28 p.m. EST Monday, Nov. 18, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-075 - NASA SETS TV BRIEFING TODAY TO DISCUSS SPACE STATION STATUS --HOUSTON -- NASA managers will discuss the status of the International Space Station, including the latest on an external cooling loop leak that developed Thursday, during a televised briefing today at 3 p.m. CDT (4 p.m. EDT). The news briefing will take place at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. It will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website. Mission managers have spent the day reviewing data on the leak, which is located on the station's far port truss, and whether to conduct a spacewalk Saturday to investigate the leak. A final decision on the possible spacewalk is expected later today.
