Awards for NASA Launch Services (NLS) contracts, designed to provide a broad range of launch services for NASA planetary, earth-observing and scientific payloads, were announced today. NASA selected both Boeing Delta Launch Services, Inc. and Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, Inc. for Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts with a minimum of one launch service to each contractor over a 10-year period.

Under the NLS contracts NASA can order up to 70 launch services, with a total estimated value to $5 billion. Included in the 70 launch services, Boeing Delta Launch Services, Inc. was awarded three firm missions with a value of more than $168 million and five option missions with a potential value of over $248 million, for an overall value of about $417 million.

"Boeing Delta Launch Services, Inc. and Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, Inc. were selected based on their ability to meet NASA's highly critical future mission requirements and their proven track records for providing a quality product over the years to NASA," said Scott Kerr, Chairman, NLS Source Evaluation Board. "We look forward to continuing our growing relationship with these companies and are encouraged by what they have in store for the future of expendable vehicles."

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