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NASA Gives Oceaneering International $9.6 Million Initial Spacesuit Contract; Full Pact To Be Negotiated By August

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Monday, March 2nd, 2009

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NASA gave Oceaneering International Inc. an interim letter contract for the next-generation American spacesuit. Oceaneering, of Houston, will begin work on designing, developing and producing a new spacesuit system for the Constellation Program that is creating the next-generation Orion space capsule, Altair lunar lander and Ares rocket family for missions to space. That spacesuit will protect astronauts during voyages to the International Space Station and exploration of the lunar surface. The letter contract requires Oceaneering to begin work on the…

Congress

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Space

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