NASA Awards Contract for Acquisition of Gaseous, Liquid Helium

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — NASA has chosen three firms to produce 1.4 million liters of liquid helium and 87.7 million customary cubic toes of gaseous helium for use at services throughout the company. The indefinite supply necessities contract contains a number of firm-fixed value supply orders. Awardees embrace:

• Air Products and Chemicals Inc. of Allentown, Pennsylvania
• Messer LLC of Bridgewater, New Jersey
• Linde Inc. of Danbury, Connecticut

NASA requires helium to assist the International Space Station Program in addition to the Space Launch System and Orion Programs that assist Artemis, the company’s missions to the Moon. Helium is an inert fuel for purging hydrogen programs, a pressurizing agent for floor and flight fluid programs, a cryogenic agent for cooling numerous supplies, and a commodity utilized in precision welding purposes.

The contract begins Saturday, Oct. 1, with a two-year base interval adopted by an possibility interval that, if exercised, would lengthen the contract to Sept. 30, 2025. The complete worth of the contract for the bottom plus possibility interval is roughly $149 million.

The company makes use of helium at its services throughout the nation, together with Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; Glenn Research Center and Armstrong Test Facility in Cleveland; Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California; Kennedy Space Center (together with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station) in Florida; Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas; Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia; Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans; Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia; and White Sands Test Facility, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

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SOURCE NASA