UAB, Huntsville companies selected for space station contract

NASA has selected three Huntsville companies and the University of Alabama at Birmingham as part of a nearly $500 million contract to provide research, engineering, and mission integration services for the International Space Station Program. Axient, Tec-Masters, and Teledyne Brown Engineering are among the 11 companies chosen for the program. The $478 million Research, Engineering & Mission Integration Services-2 contract will support the work of the International Space Station Program based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, NASA said in a news release. The companies will provide