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NASA Extends Lockheed Martin Contract Supporting Human Spaceflight

Gally Articola

Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] announced Wednesday that NASA has extended its contract for facilities and operations development to support human spaceflight with a $167 million addition. The one-year extension brings the total contract to $1 billion through September 2014. The contract supports “hardware, software, data and display systems used to train for and execute all human spaceflight missions,” according to the company’s release. The contract will further Lockheed’s efforts to update the Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center in Houston.…

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