NASA Awards Contracts to Supply 37 million Pounds of Liquid Hydrogen for Uuse at Agency Facilities

value for the combined awards is $147.2 million

NASA has selected Plug Power, Inc., of Slingerlands, New York, and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., of Allentown, Pennsylvania, to supply up to 37 million pounds of liquid hydrogen for use at agency facilities.

Liquid hydrogen is used as the fuel for rocket engine development, testing, and the launch of spacecraft.  Liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, cryogenic propellants, are supplied to engines that produce the thrust required to meet mission objectives.

The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid Hydrogen awards are firm-fixed-price requirements contracts that include multiple firm-fixed-price delivery orders critical for the agency’s centers as they use liquid hydrogen, combined with liquid oxygen, as fuel in cryogenic rocket engines, and the commodity’s unique properties support the development of aeronautics. The total value for the combined awards is about $147.2 million.

The contracts begin Monday, December 1, and each consists of a two-year base period followed by three one-year option periods that, if exercised, would extend the contracts to November 30, 2030.

Air Products and Chemicals Inc. will supply up to about 36.5 million pounds of liquid hydrogen to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, for a maximum contract value of approximately $144.4 million.

Plug Power, Inc. will deliver up to approximately 480,000 pounds of the commodity to NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and at Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, for a maximum contract value of about $2.8 million.

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