Apr 20 2010
From The Space Library
CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-050
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.
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RELEASE: 10-151
NASA ADMINISTRATOR BOLDEN NAMED CHAMPION OF SUMMER LEARNING
WASHINGTON -- The National Summer Learning Association has recognized NASA Administrator Charles Bolden as a Champion of Summer Learning. The award honors Bolden's dedication to keeping America's middle school students engaged in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) through a new initiative called the Summer of Innovation. Five leaders from across the nation who have invested in summer learning programs and helped increase public support for them will receive the award. "Bolden's leadership on the NASA Summer of Innovation program has resulted in a major step forward on two critical policy challenges facing our nation: summer learning loss and STEM education, said Ron Fairchild, CEO of the association. Bolden officially kicked off the Summer of Innovation June 10 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Using content from NASA's missions and research, the program will engage thousands of middle school students in STEM learning during the summer months when many students experience summer slide, or a loss of skills acquired during the school year. Summer of Innovation is a cornerstone of the Educate to Innovate campaign President Obama announced last November. "It is such an honor for me personally -- and for NASA -- to be recognized for our commitment to summer learning, Bolden said. "However I do want to single out two individuals without whom the Summer of Innovation would not be in place today -- Nicole Campbell, a White House Fellow who raised the idea of this program when she joined my staff, and Dovie Lacy, the project manager, who breathed life into the program. Education is a passion of mine, and I have asked that NASA's best and brightest get involved and make this Summer of Innovation a special and meaningful experience for these middle school students. They're our future and I want to ensure it is a bright one. To learn more about the Summer of Innovation, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/soi
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-005
MEET THE NEXT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW: NASA HOLDS BRIEFING AND ONE-ON-ONE MEDIA INTERVIEWS ON JAN. 21
HOUSTON -- NASA will hold a briefing for journalists with the next set of residents of the International Space Station at 1 p.m. CST Thursday, Jan. 21, from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The briefings will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's Web site. Questions also will be taken from participating NASA locations. The briefing participants are: - Expedition 23 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson - Expedition 23 Flight Engineer and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov - Expedition 23 Flight Engineer and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko Following the briefing, the crew members will be available for individual round-robin interviews, in person or by phone. There also will be a photo opportunity. To participate in the interviews, reporters should contact the Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111, by 4 p.m. CST, Wednesday, Jan. 20. U.S. and foreign nationals planning to attend the news briefing must contact the Johnson newsroom by 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, to arrange credentials. On April 2, Skvortsov, Kornienko, and Caldwell Dyson will launch to the station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. They will dock to the space station on April 4, joining Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who arrived on the station in December as part of Expedition 22. For NASA TV streaming video, schedules, and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv For the latest information about Expedition 23 and its crew, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-026
NASA SETS OUT OF THIS WORLD NEWS CONFERENCE WITH SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR AND SPACE STATION CREWS
HOUSTON -- The 11 crew members aboard space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station will hold a news conference at 8:39 p.m. CST on Thursday, Feb. 18. U.S. reporters may ask questions in person from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and NASA Headquarters in Washington. A portion of the news conference will be set aside for Japanese reporters. To participate in the news conference, U.S. journalists must call the public affairs office at their preferred NASA center by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Media must be in place at participating locations at least 20 minutes prior to the start of the news conference. NASA Television will provide live coverage of the 40-minute news conference. For NASA TV downlink, schedule and streaming video information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv During Endeavour's STS-130 mission, astronauts installed the Tranquility node, a module that provides additional room for crew members and many of the space station's life support and environmental control systems. Attached to Tranquility is a cupola with seven windows that provide a panoramic view of Earth, celestial objects and visiting spacecraft. Tranquility and its cupola are the final major U.S. portions of the station. The orbiting laboratory now is approximately 90 percent complete in terms of mass.
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