Raytheon will operate, maintain and provide sustaining engineering at the Johnson Space Center’s neutral buoyancy laboratory and space vehicle mock-up facility, under a new contract.
The neutral buoyancy laboratory (NBL) includes a large pool where astronauts use pressurised spacesuits to train for spacewalks.
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The NBL, fitted with underwater mock-ups of the space shuttle and International Space Station modules, simulates the weightless environment of space.
The space vehicle mock-up facility includes full-scale simulators of the shuttle, station and Soyuz spacecraft.
The contract has a maximum value of $119.9m and includes a three-year base period valued at $67.6m with two one-year options totalling to $52.3m.
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