NASA will exercise the first of two one-year options on a three-year contract to Enterprise Advisory Services Inc of Houston, for facility operations and support at NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, NM NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston manages the facility.

By Diana M. Alba, Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M. Aug. 2--LAS CRUCES -- The fate of a back-up space shuttle landing site north of Las Cruces is up in the air in advance of a NASA plan to retire its space shuttle program in two years.

By JOURNAL STAFF WRITER CHARLES D. BRUNT Although it's an Army installation, White Sands Missile Range is integral to the Air Force's research and development efforts.

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NASA managers cleared space shuttle Discovery to return home Friday, but are unsure where the spacecraft will touch down. Showers and clouds were in the forecast at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and crosswinds were expected at NASA's next-best option.