What Delaware company lost the NASA contract for space suits to a Houston company?”
Full article: NASA awards $745 million contract to manufacture spacesuits for astronauts news 13 June 2008 Almost 50 years after Eugene Cernan last walked on the moon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) aims to return to earth’s only natural satellite by 2020, and it has turned to a new lead contractor to build spacesuits for its astronauts. NASA officials today announced the decision to offer the $745 million contract of designing, developing and testing the agency’s new set of spacesuits to Oceaneering International Inc. of Houston, Texas, subject to certain conditions. The new generation is also known as the Constellation Space Suit System. A joint bid by two other companies was also considered for the $184 million development process that is expected to provide its first results around September 2014. The winner defeated a bid by Exploration Systems and Technology, a joint venture of current lead spacesuit contractors United Technologies Corp’s Hamilton Sundst
