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Lockheed Martin to Provide Life Sciences Support to NASA

HOUSTON, Texas, March 24, 2003 - Lockheed Martin Space Operations
(LMSO) is a member of the winning team recently selected by NASA's
Johnson Space Center (JSC) to provide astronaut-related medical
support and operations, flight hardware development and research
services for NASA's Space Shuttle and International Space Station
programs. The potential value of this contract to Lockheed Martin
(NYSE:LMT) is about $300 million over the expected ten-year life of
the contract. 

As the principal subcontractor on this program to Wyle Laboratories,
Inc., LMSO will support JSC's Office of Bioastronautics in the Space
and Life Sciences organization, which is responsible for the health
and productivity of crews living and working in space. The Office of
Bioastronautics also ensures the overall excellence of science on
human space missions and leverages knowledge gained in space to
enhance life on Earth. 

"Lockheed Martin has been supporting America's human spaceflight
program for more than 40 years and has provided Life Sciences support
at Johnson Space Center for more than two decades," said Jay
Honeycutt, president, Lockheed Martin Space Operations. "We are
delighted that we will continue to be playing a key role in support
of JSC's Office of Biastronautics as a member of the Wyle team."

Under the contract, the company will provide mission management,
development, integration and operations support for life sciences
experiments and payloads. Its scientists will also develop space food
technology and support NASA's award-winning Life Sciences Data
Archive. Other activities will include human factors research and
support and development of flight hardware and ground systems.

Among its accomplishments in support of NASA's bioastronautics
program, Lockheed Martin developed the Human Research Facility, the
first facility-class payload on the International Space Station. The
company also managed the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission payload,
which flew onboard Space Shuttle Endeavour and gathered topographic
data over approximately 80% of the land surfaces of the Earth,
creating the first-ever near-global data set of land elevations.

Lockheed Martin Space Operations, a business unit of Lockheed Martin
Technology Services headquartered in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, is a
high-technology company with about 3,000 engineers, scientists and
support personnel. Services include data collection, processing and
exploitation, telemetry, and communication operations support for
NASA; software and hardware engineering for the Space Shuttle and
International Space Station; mission operations and planning systems
design, development, and integration; and human life sciences
research. 

Contact:
Contact: Ron Meder 281-283-4244, ron.meder{at}lmco.com

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