WASHINGTON, June 17,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA has awarded a contract to
Vertex Aerospace, LLC of Madison,
Mississippi, for labor support to ensure continuing safe
operations of the Sonny Carter Training Facility at NASA's Johnson
Space Center in Houston.
The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory Operations Contract II has a
two-year base period that begins Oct.
1, followed by five option periods ranging from one to two
years with a possible extension of services through 2034. The total
potential value of the contract is $265.2
million. The contract includes a cost-plus-award-fee
portion, which covers the core work of the contract, and an option
to transition to cost-plus-fixed-fee and back again.
Under the contract, Vertex Aerospace will provide technical,
managerial, and administrative work needed to ensure the
reliability of integrated hardware and software systems used at the
Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory to prepare astronauts for human
spaceflight missions.
The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory is a unique facility
that is available at all times for critical training and mission
support operations, and is kept in a ready state to support the
dynamic nature of human spaceflight. The laboratory features a
6.2-million-gallon pool, an essential tool for spacewalk training,
simulates the weightlessness experienced by astronauts in
space.
Learn more about NASA and agency programs at:
https://www.nasa.gov
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