AECOM is contributing to NASA's mission by designing high-performance facilities and supporting the development of new technologies for both commercial and governmental space exploration. Their projects include support for the International Space Station, climate change research in Antarctica, and the construction of the world's first commercial spaceport in New Mexico. AECOM is also involved in various sustainability initiatives to ensure environmental compliance across NASA's operations.

1. Mission: Space
NASA and commercial space flight
companies are expanding our reach into
the solar system and beyond.
Here at home, AECOM supports the
mission by designing high-performance
facilities and helping them develop and
test new technologies.
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2. NASA Langley Research
Center Headquarters Building
Hampton, Virginia
Photo: © Maxwell McKenzie, 2011
Architecture and engineering for a LEED
Platinum facility

3. Spaceport America “Gateway to Space”
New Mexico Spaceport Authority and Virgin
Galactic
New Mexico
Engineering for the world’s first
commercial spaceport
Photo: Nigel Young / Foster + Partners

4. NASA Wallops Space Flight Center
Remote Sensing Program
Operation IceBridge — McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Measuring annual changes in the
thickness of sea ice, glaciers and ice
sheets to predict the response of the
earth’s polar ice to climate change

5. NASA Kennedy
Space Center
Florida
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Supporting every facet of day-to-day
operations, including rocket tests and
commercial space flights

6. Simulated Lunar Surface Project
Institutional Services Contract
NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Photo: NASA
A mock moonscape made from recycled
materials for testing of the Morpheus lander

7. NASA Marshall Space
Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
Supporting the International Space Station,
and technology development for continued
solar system research and exploration

8. NASA Ames Sustainability
Base Building N232
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Engineering for a LEED Platinum office
that operates using technology developed
for space

9. SpaceX — NASA Space
Exploration Technologies
California, Florida and Texas facilities
Photo: SpaceX
Providing support in the development and
launching of new rockets

10. NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars
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Ensuring the Curiosity Mars rover’s power
source is reliable for a two-year mission

11. NASA Strategic Sustainability
Performance Plan
Environmental Functional
Review Compliance Program
14 years of maintaining
environmental compliance across
NASA's nationwide operations

12. Developing commercial space
capabilities in Florida
Space Florida —
Florida Department of Transportation
Cape Canaveral, Florida

13. NASA’s Johnson Space Center
Houston, Texas
Helping consolidate facilities and
functions into the anticipated LEED
Platinum Environmental Support Complex

14. Coming April 22
Mission: Earth
For more information about AECOM’s space
exploration-related projects contact
tom.mcaloon@aecom.com
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