SP-4208 LIVING AND WORKING IN SPACE: A HISTORY OF SKYLAB

 

Appendix B

Major Contractors

 

Contractor

Responsible Center

Contract

Task

Amount (millions)

.

McDonnell Douglas Astronautics

MSFC

Orbital workshop

$383.3

Rockwell International

JSC

Command and service modules

354.3

McDonnell Douglas Astronautics

MSFC

Airlock module

267.7

Martin Marietta

MSFC

Payload integration and multiple docking adapter assembly

215.5

Martin Marietta

JSC

Payload and experiments integration and spacecraft support

105.4

McDonnell Douglas Astronautics

KSC

S-IVB launch services

58.9

Naval Research Laboratory

MSFC

S082A, B, ultraviolet spectroheliograph and spectrograph

40.9

Harvard College Observatory

MSFC

S055 ultraviolet spectrometer

34.6

International Business Machines

MSFC

Instrument unit

30.7

Chrysler

MSFC

S-IB stage

30.0

General Electric

JSC

Reliability and quality assurance systems engineering for auto. checkout equipment

29.7

International Business Machines

MSFC

Apollo telescope mount digital computer

29.2

McDonnell Douglas Astronautics

MSFC

S-IVB stage

25.7

General Electric

MSFC

Electrical support equipment, logistic support

25.0

Chrysler

KSC

S-IB launch operations support

23.2

Rockwell International

KSC

Command and service module support

17.5

International Latex Corp.

JSC

Spacesuits

16.9

High Altitude Observatory

MSFC

S052 white light coronagraph

14.7

Boeing

KSC

Saturn V vehicle and launch operations support

14.4

General Electric

MSFC

Launch vehicle ground support equipment

12.6

International Business Machines

KSC

Instrument unit launch services

12.3

Garrett

JSC

Portable astronaut life support assembly

11.9

General Electric

JSC

S193 microwave radiometer-scatterometer

11.3

Martin Marietta

Hqs.

Program support

11.1

Honeywell

JSC

S192 10-band multispectral scanner

10.8

Rockwell International

MSFC

Saturn engine support, Saturn V and IB

10.3

American Science & Engineering

MSFC

S054 x-ray spectrographic telescope

8.3

Boeing

MSFC

Systems engineering and integration

7.4

Martin Marietta

KSC

Multiple docking adapter support

7.2

Chrysler

MSFC

S-IB systems and integration

7.0

Itek

JSC

S-190 multispectral photographic facility

2.7

Goddard Space Flight Center

MSFC

S056 dual x-ray telescope

2.5

Block Engineering

JSC

S191 infrared spectrometer

2.0

Cutler Hammer Airborne Instruments

JSC

S194 L-band radiometer

1.5

Boeing

MSFC

S-IC stage

0.9

Delco Electronics

KSC

Navigation and guidance launch operations

0.9

SOURCE: Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Skylab: Status of Skylab Mission, hearing, 93d Congress, 1st sess., 23 May 1973, p.25.


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