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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
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483-5111 December t0, 1970
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HOUSTON_ TEXAS--The NASA Manned Spacecraft Center has modified its
space shuttle study contract with Space Division_ North American Rockwell_
Downey_ California to include a structural test program.
Estimated value of t_e fixed price modification is $2 million.
Total value of the contract is estimated at $10.8 million. This includes
$8 million for definition and preliminary design studies; a
$500 thousand add-on to study use of expendable second stages_ and a
$300 thousand increment of Department of Defense funds to study requirements
for the U. S. Air Force.
The eontractor has been requested to establish a test program on
cryogenic tank structure _nd insulation; high-temperature fasteners;
static and dynamic seals; bulk insulation packaging and attachment;
thermal protection; wing structure and fuselage structure. Work will be
done at plants in Downey and Seal Beach_ California and at a subcontractor
facility in San Diego.
North American Rockwell is one of two aerospace firms making detailed
studies of the space shut-;le transportation system. A similar study by
McDonnell-Douglas Corpora sion_ St. Louis_ Missouri is monitored by the
Marshall Space Flight Center.
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