Aug 24 2000
From The Space Library
NASA awarded four small businesses 90-day contracts to develop concepts and requirements for providing access to the ISS on emerging launch systems. The contracts' purpose was to identify potential backup capability and to augment the station's primary resupply vehicles: the U.S. Space Shuttle, the Russian Progress, the ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle, and the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle. NASA awarded Andrews Space and Technology US$195,000; Microcosm, US$198,000; HMX Ltd., US$245,000; and Kistler Aerospace Corporation, US$264,000, to develop concepts, determine requirements of launch services, and provide suggestions on specific development risk-reduction activities, which NASA would need to perform. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center would manage the study contracts under the Alternate Access Project of the Space Launch Initiative.
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