John Yembrick
Headquarters, Washington
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Steve Roy
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
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CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-062
NASA AWARDS SPACE SHUTTLE MAIN ENGINE CONTRACT MODIFICATION
WASHINGTON -- NASA has signed a $60.3 million contract modification to
space shuttle main engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Inc. of Canoga Park, Calif., to provide continued space shuttle main
engine prelaunch, launch and landing support from Oct. 1, 2010,
through March 31, 2011.
This action is based on an extension to the current Space Shuttle
Program flight manifest launch schedule, which shifted the last two
scheduled launch dates into fiscal year 2011.
This modification brings the total potential value of the contract to
$2.25 billion.
The space shuttle's three main engines, along with the solid rocket
boosters, provide the thrust to launch the space shuttle. At 14 feet
long and seven and a half feet in diameter at the nozzle exit, the
liquid propellant rocket engines have a combined thrust of more than
1.2 million pounds.
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