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Forum: Exploration: Moon to Mars
Topic: NASA contracts for Constellation spacesuit

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 08-15-2008 03:48 PM Reuters: [URL=http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1538637220080815]NASA to re-open bidding for space suits -letter[/URL] <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]NASA plans to terminate its contract for oilfield services company Oceaneering International Inc. to produce a new space suit as it seeks more information on costs, according to a document obtained by Reuters on Friday. The move by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration gives diversified U.S. manufacturer United Technologies Corp's Hamilton Sundstrand unit a chance to win back the contract. Hamilton has been the prime contractor on the space suit program since 1981. A NASA official told Washington auditors in a letter dated Thursday that the U.S. space agency found it had not asked Oceaneering for a required "cost accounting standards disclosure statement," and it would hold "limited discussions" with Oceaneering and United Tech about new proposals. NASA will terminate its current contract for Houston-based Oceaneering to produce the space suits, senior attorney Alexander Bakos wrote in the letter obtained by Reuters.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>
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