Aug 28 2007
From The Space Library
NASA announced the selection of the Boeing Company of Huntsville, Alabama, as the production contractor for the Ares-I upper stage. Under the contract, valued at US$514.7 million, plus US$610 million in options, a NASA-led design team would receive support from Boeing during the design phase. Boeing would take responsibility for production of the upper stage, manufacturing a ground-test article, three flight-test units, and six production-flight units to support NASA’s flight manifest through 2016. The cost-plus-award-fee contract covered a performance period that would begin in September 2007 and last through December 2016.
NASA, “NASA Selects Ares I Upper Stage Production Contractor,” contract release C07-40, 28 August 2007, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/aug/HQ_C07040_Ares_1_Upper_Stage_Contract.html (accessed 14 June 2010); Seth Borenstein for Associated Press, “Boeing Wins Big NASA Contract,” 29 August 2007.
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