Primes and human spaceflight
United Space Alliance
The Boeing and Lockheed Martin joint venture that became NASA prime contractor for Space Shuttle operations in October 1996, with a Ground Operations division at Kennedy responsible for shuttle processing and booster retrieval [FLHR9421][WUSA].
- Entity type
- company
- Kind
- company
- Lane
- Primes and human spaceflight
- Place
- Kennedy Space Center
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 1996
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1996 · 1996: NASA awards contract to United Space Alliance (1996)
- Role
- Space Shuttle operations contractor
- Cutoff status
- Historic
- Status as of the cutoff
- Historic. Formed to run Space Shuttle operations; the program flew its final mission in 2011.
- Entity status
- historic or successor
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- historic or successor
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 4
- Betweenness
- 0.0346 on the full graph · 0.0145 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [FLHR9421] [WUSA] [NASASTS]
Connections
Ownership and corporate lineage
- co owner of ←1996 onward
- co owner of ←1996 onward
Industrial production and service
- awards contract to ←NASANASA makes the joint venture prime contractor for Space Shuttle operations in October 1996 [FLHR9421]1996
- operates program →Space Shuttle programpreflight processing, mission operations and booster retrieval under the operations contract [FLHR9421] [NASASTS]1996 to 2011