The battle for juicy NASA contracts is heating up as the space shuttle nears retirement in 2010 and work continues on the Constellation program to replace it. [More] Read More at Scientific American…
Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have completed a series of tests on a key component of the J-2X engine. Read More at SpaceRef…
The next generation of lunar astronauts will wear spacesuits designed in part from cadaver studies at Ohio State University Medical Center. Read More at The Columbus Dispatch…
NASA said late Friday it has terminated the $183.8 million space suit contract it awarded to a Houston company rather than to a joint venture involving ILC Dover, of Frederica. Read More at The News Journal…
NASA has terminated Houston-based Oceaneering International’s contract to develop a new generation of spacesuits and is reopening the bidding for the $184 million contract. Read More at Houston Chronicle…
The conflict with Russia over Georgia might affect NASA’s ability to get astronauts to the international space station after the space shuttle gets retired in 2010. Congress must pass a special waiver by Sept. 30 so NASA can buy Soyuz capsule flights. Read More at NPR…
NASA has halted a contract with a Texas firm to build its new spacesuits. Read More at SPACE.com…
NASA anticipates that corrective action will involve reconsideration of its procurement decision. The pending protest litigation is subject to a Government Accountability Office Protective Order. Read More at SpaceRef…
NASA has concluded that corrective action is appropriate in the Government Accountability Office bid protest of Exploration Systems Technology, Inc. Read More at The Bay Area Citizen…
NASA has terminated Houston-based Oceaneering International’s contract to develop a new generation of spacesuits and is reopening the bidding for the $184 million contract. Read More at Houston Chronicle…