Dec 1 1998
From The Space Library
NASA announced its selection of Litton/PRC of Mclean, Virginia, to perform work under NASA's sounding rocket operations contract, consolidating several previous contracts. The four -year contract, an indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contract worth between US$11.9 million and US$211.8 million, included two three-year options worth up to an additional US$572.5 million. Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC's) Wallops Flight Facility, at Wallops Island, Virginia, was to provide services, including design, fabrication, integration, testing, and performance of mission operations for sounding rocket missions. NASA considered the contract an integral part of the Wallops 2000 strategic plan, initiated in 1997 to ensure the facility's future "stability and vitality."
NASA awarded US$33 million in grants to 48 researchers, to conduct microgravity biotechnology research through NASA's Office of Life and Microgravity Science and Applications. To those investigators awarded the 40 grants for ground-based research, NASA provided access to its microgravity research facilities, including aircraft flying parabolic trajectories and sounding rockets. NASA awarded eight grants to flight-definition investigators, to prepare for experiments on the International Space Station (ISS).
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