16 July 2020: Boeing is awarded a USD 916 million contract extension by NASA till September 2024 for providing engineering support services, resources, and personnel for activities for the International Space Station (ISS). Boeing is NASA’s lead industry partner for the ISS since 1993, thus the renewed contract takes the NASA-Boeing partnership into third decade. Work will be done at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Centre in Houston; the John F. Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida; and Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama, as well as other locations around the world. The contract is valued at about USD 225 million annually.
“As the International Space Station marks its 20th year of human habitation, Boeing continues to enhance the utility and livability of the orbiting lab we built for NASA decades ago,” said John Mulholland, Boeing vice president and program manager for the International Space Station. “We thank NASA for their confidence in our team and the opportunity to support the agency’s vital work in spaceflight and deep-space exploration for the benefit of all humankind.”
Congress, NASA and its international partners have agreed to extend ISS operations to at least 2024. Recent structural analysis shows that the spacecraft continues to be safe and mission-capable.
NASA selected Boeing as the ISS prime contractor in 1993. Throughout development, assembly, habitation and daily operations aboard ISS, Boeing has partnered closely with NASA to help the agency and its international partners safely host astronauts and cosmonauts for months at a time. The astronauts conduct microgravity experiments that help treat disease, increase food production, and manufacture technology impossible to produce on Earth’s surface.
