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NASA Extends Raytheon Contract For Spaceflight Support Facilities

Friday, August 21st, 2015

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The NASA Johnson Space Center awarded Raytheon [RTN] a contract extension worth upward of $102 million to continue to provide operations, maintenance, and engineering services for up to four years at facilities supporting human spaceflight.Raytheon will continue to provide the services at NASA’s neutral Buoyancy lab (NBL) and Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF).The NBL is a deep water pool astronauts use for spacewalk training. The SVMF contains full-size mockups and simulators for the International Space Station (ISS), Orion capsule, and…

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