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Employees work more than 10 million hours without workplace safety incident BETHESDA, Md., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Employees at the Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Space Systems facility in Huntsville, Ala., have received the company's Platinum Target Zero Award for working 10 million hours without a workplace safety incident resulting in lost time. "This outstanding accomplishment by our Huntsville employees has shown that it is possible to achieve Mission Success while...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] today commemorated 50( )years of operations in Huntsville, Ala., with a celebration attended by approximately 1,000 people, including Lockheed Martin employees and retirees, government and military personnel, industry partners and community members. John Holly, vice president of Missile Defense Systems and deputy for Strategic and Missile Defense Systems, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, led the...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online NASA's annual Great Moonbuggy Race kicked off today in Huntsville, Alabama, marking 20 years since the competition began. The annual Great Moonbuggy Race involves high school- and college-aged students who build lightweight, human-powered "moonbuggies" that address many of the same design challenges NASA and industry engineers overcame during the Apollo missions. In the late 1960s, NASA engineers designed the Apollo-era Lunar Roving...
- Redstone Gateway facility to house 1,400 employees HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Alabama leaders today officially opened a new complex in Huntsville that will advance Boeing's competitiveness and strengthen the company's commitment to the state. Boeing is the largest aerospace company in Alabama and one of the state's largest employers. Huntsville employees in leased facilities have begun moving into the first completed building of the...
NASA has selected seven small businesses to provide a variety of program support services for the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The blanket purchase agreements have no minimum or maximum value. There is a five-year ordering period. Tasks will be performance-based, fixed-price, or time and material orders. The agreements include a one-year base period followed by four one-year options that may be exercised at NASA's discretion. Under the Marshall Integrated...
WASHINGTON, March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected seven small businesses to provide a variety of program support services for the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The blanket purchase agreements have no minimum or maximum value. There is a five-year ordering period. Tasks will be performance-based, fixed-price, or time and material orders. The agreements include a one-year...
Student-designed Experiment Bound for International Space Station a Giant Leap for Michigan High School Students AUBURN HILLS, Mich., March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 50 years since a Chrysler-built Redstone rocket launched Alan Shepard into space, The Chrysler Foundation, the charitable arm of Chrysler Group LLC, will present Warren (Mich.) Consolidated School's Butcher Educational Center with a $17,500 grant to help send their science experiment to the International Space...
The Florida Institute of Technology Department of Extended Studies invites prospective graduate students to attend an Extended Studies Instant Decision Day (IDD) April 10, from 4 to 8 p.m. MELBOURNE, FLA. (PRWEB) March 09, 2013 The Florida Institute of Technology Department of Extended Studies invites prospective graduate students to attend an Extended Studies Instant Decision Day (IDD) April 10, from 4 to 8 p.m. The Florida Tech Huntsville Site event will be held at 6767 Old Madison...
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected three companies to provide engineering solutions and products to Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The companies are Radiance Technologies, Inc. and Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc. of Huntsville, Ala., and Wyle Laboratories, Inc. of Houston. The performance-based, cost-reimbursement fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity...
President of LEAN Frog Byron Headrick has recently been awarded his Master Six Sigma Certification. Huntsville, Alabama (PRWEB) February 16, 2013 Lean Frog Business Solutions has one more achievement to add it its long list of credentials. President of LEAN Frog Byron Headrick has recently been awarded his Master Six Sigma Certification. According to the American Society of Quality Control (ASQ), the Master Six Sigma Certification is a significant achievement, stating “certification is...
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Wernher von Braun (March 23, 1912 - June 16, 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. His work on the Nazi rocket program made him a controversial figure. The controversy was captured in a song by satirist Tom Lehrer, who described him as "A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience". He was born on in Wirsitz, Posen, Germany and his mother gave him a telescope upon his Lutheran confirmation. His interest in astronomy...
