Headquartered in Houston, Texas, United Space Alliance (USA) is one of the world’s leading space operations companies. USA is a joint ventures between the largest American Aerospace corporations, Boeing and Lockheed, formed in 1996 and is contracted by NASA. The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA)(TYO: 7661 ) is the leading American aircraft and aerospace manufacturer, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with its largest production facilities in Everett, Washington, about 30 miles north of Seattle, Washington. ... The Lockheed SR-71, remarkably advanced for its time and unsurpassed in many areas of performance The Lockheed U-2 first flew in 1955 providing much needed intelligence on Soviet bloc countries Lockheed Corporation was an aerospace company founded in 1912 which merged with Martin Marietta in 1995 to form... NASA Logo Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ...
UnitedSpaceAlliance executives expect to hit $2.5 billion in annual sales by 2002, thanks to additions to a mammoth space shuttle operations contract awarded to the joint venture company two and a half years ago.
In June, NASA and the UnitedSpaceAlliance are cosponsoring a two-day national conference in League City, Texas, to identify emerging technologies and concepts for next-generation improvements to the shuttles.
UnitedSpaceAlliance executives hope to parlay the company's shuttle work into other government space business, such as operating the International Space Station and the planned crew return vehicle that would be used to ferry astronauts back to Earth in an emergency.
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