NASA will spend $3.5 billion on task order awards for missions that will provide capabilities for the agency's spacewalking needs through 2034, upgrading its spacesuits.
The agency awarded task orders to Collins Aerospace and Axiom Space last year, buying services that provide astronauts with next-generation spacesuit and spacewalk systems to work outside the International Space Station, explore the lunar surface on Artemis missions and prepare for crewed missions to Mars.
The task order for Collins Aerospace is worth $97.2 million, and Axiom Space's has a base value of $228.5 million. With these awards, NASA said it is another step closer to replacing the current design that has been used by its astronauts for decades during space shuttle and space station missions. "We look forward to obtaining another much-needed service under our contract," Lara Kearney, manager of the Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, said in a statement. "By working with industry, NASA is able to continue its over 22-year legacy of maintaining a presence in low-Earth orbit."
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