Company Could Receive $1.37 Billion Over Nine Years If All Options Are Exercised
NASA has awarded its Test and Operations Support Contract, or TOSC, to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, TN. Jacobs will provide overall management and implementation of ground systems capabilities, flight hardware processing and launch operations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Kiruna Airport Hopes To Offer Horizontal And Vertical Launches From The Arctic Circle
About 90 miles north of the Arctic Circle is the Swedish town of Kiruna, whose international airport offers flights to London and Tokyo. But if the plans of Spaceport Sweden come to fruition, the town could be the site of vertical and horizontal commercial space launches.
Will Be Used By Students To Study Survival Systems
Some parts of NASA's shuttle program are finding some new life in academia. Nova Southeastern University's (NSU) Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences in Fort Lauderdale, FL, has received one of the NASA Space Shuttle's on-board general purpose computers (AP-101S GPC). Faculty and students will study the design and construction of survival systems using the shuttle's computer.
America, Russia, Canada Represented Aboard The Soyuz Spacecraft
With temperatures well below freezing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Tom Marshburn of NASA, Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency launched Wednesday to the International Space Station at 0712 EST (1812 Baikonur time).
It was 1755 EST time on December 14th, 1972 when the ascent propulsion system of the LEM Challenger ignited and separated from its descent stage. Mylar insulation bits and pieces were seen flying off in every direction as the rover’s camera followed the ascent stage in perfect timing.
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