John Yembrick
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0602
john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov

Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov

CONTRACT RELEASE: 08-045

NASA EXTENDS SPACE STATION CARGO DELIVERY CONTRACT

HOUSTON - NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems Inc. in
Houston, a one-year contract extension valued at $42 million to
provide integration services for cargo delivery to and from the
International Space Station.

Lockheed Martin has held the station's cargo mission contract since
January 2004. The one-year extension will bring the total value of
the contract to $338 million.

The contract provides cargo packing for delivery to and from the space
station, consisting of pressurized and unpressurized science and
logistics carriers, assembly hardware and crew support. It also
involves determining the most efficient way to pack the cargo,
verifying the adequacy of the integrated carriers, packing the
pressurized cargo into sub-carriers and returning the cargo to the
providers once it returns to Earth. The contract also provides
sustaining engineering for NASA carriers.

The extension begins Oct. 1, 2008, and is the first of two such
options provided for in the original contract.

Major subcontractors include United Space Alliance LLC and Bastion
Technologies Inc., both in Houston; Command Technologies Inc. in
Warrenton, Va.; Teledyne Brown Engineering Inc. in Huntsville, Ala.,
and EADS Astrium Space Transportation, Bremen, Germany. The work will
be performed at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and at the
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

For more information about the space station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station