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NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) has negotiated a contract modification valued at $27.4 million with SPACEHAB, Inc. in Houston, to continue support for the STS-107 Space Shuttle research mission.

The work performed under the contract is associated with mission support services including SPACEHAB flight hardware, module transporter, ground support equipment, ground payload processing facilities, module trainers and mockups to support flight crew training, and mission integration services.

The extension of contractor support accommodates the changes in the Space Shuttle launch schedule that affected STS-107's launch date. STS-107 is scheduled to lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida in June 2002.

The contract modification brings the total of the initial firm-fixed-price Research and Logistics Mission Support Contract, which was awarded in December 1997, to $182 million. The contract is managed by JSC, while work for the contract modification will be performed in Huntsville, Ala., and KSC.