PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oct 30, 1989

       Houston-based Lifeco Services Corporation has been awarded the travel management contract for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

       Under terms of the one- to five-year contract, Lifeco will provide travel management services for employees at JPL facilities in Pasadena and at JPL sites in Washington, D.C., Reston, Virginia and Cape Canaveral, Florida.

       JPL is federally-funded research and development organization operated by the California Institute of Technology under contract to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Laboratory primarily conducts unmanned scientific spacecraft missions to explore the solar system for NASA.

       In the past year, JPL has conducted the Voyager spacecraft flyby of Neptune, launched the Magellan probe to Venus, and launched another interplanetary spacecraft, Galileo, on mission to Jupiter.

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