NASA has exercised $318 million in contract extension options with The Boeing Company of Houston for support of the International Space Station. The action extends the contract for the United States on-orbit segment acceptance and vehicle sustaining engineering services for the station one year to Sept. 30, 2008. The original cost-plus-award-fee contract began Jan. 13, 1995. Its total value, including exercised options, is $13.3 billion.

The services include hardware and software development. They also include sustaining engineering and post production support for the U.S. segment of the station and for hardware and software common to the international partners and participants. The work also includes managing the majority of station subsystems and specialty engineering disciplines such as materials, electrical parts, environments and electromagnetic effects.

Work on the contract will be performed at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston; Kennedy Space Center, Fla.; Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., and other locations inside and outside of the United States. For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

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For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

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