An aerospace company has made a contract with Lockheed Martin to provide critical components of NASA’s spacecraft. Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., has obtained a contract with Lockheed Martin to provide critical subsystems to produce NASA’s Orion spacecraft fleet for Artemis missions III through VIII. The systems Collins Aerospace is providing will play an important role in enabling NASA’s goal of boots on the moon by 2024 and establish a sustained presence on and around the moon to prepare for missions to Mars.
“We’ve been providing life-sustaining solutions for space for 50 years, and we’re proud to be working with Lockheed Martin and NASA to enable decades of future exploration to the moon, Mars, and beyond,” said Kevin Raftery, vice president and general manager, ISR and Space Solutions for Collins Aerospace.
Work for the Orion systems will be performed at Collins Aerospace facilities in Connecticut, Texas, Illinois, and California.
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