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483-5111 MSC 70-62
June 4_ 1970
HOUSTON_ TEXAS--The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
has completed negotiations of a supplemental agreement to the Apollo
spacecraft contract with North American Rockwell Corp._ Space Division_
Downey, Calif. to provide four command and service modules for the
Skylab
Program.
This supplemental agreement definitizes the letter contract
issued March 1969 . The estimated cost of the cost-plus-fixed-fee/
award fee supplement is $305,700,000. The total estimated cost of
the CPFF/itF contract for both Apollo and Skylab is $3,618,O06,813
(total cost and fee).
The spacecraft will be used to transport astronaut crews to
the Earth orbiting Skylab in late 1972 and 1973.
North Axr_ericanwill provide supporting test and checkout
services in addition to manufacturing the spacecraft. The major
portion of the work will be performed at the contractor's facility
in California. Prelaunch support operations will be carried out
at the NASA Kennedy Space Center_ Fla. and related test activities
at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center_ Houston.
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