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Spaceflight Hardware on a Service Contract
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By Jason Crusan, Marybeth Edeen, Kevin Grohs, and Darren Samplatsky What began as conversations between NASA and Hamilton Sundstrand managers grew into an idea to develop a piece of spaceflight hardware with minimal NASA oversight.