The contract will support NASA’s Orion spacecraft Artemis missions III through VIII to the Moon. Collins Aerospace Systems will directly support NASA’s objective for manned flights to the Moon no later than 2024.
Collins will supply environmental and life support, temperature control, power management and distribution, and waste management systems.
Kevin Raftery, vice president and general manager for Collins said, "We've been providing life-sustaining solutions for space for 50 years, and we're proud to be working with Lockheed Martin and NASA to enable decades of future exploration to the Moon, Mars and beyond."
Collins Aerospace Systems is a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX).