Air Products was awarded several supply contracts from NASA totaling more than $130 MM to provide liquid H₂ for several NASA locations including the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and other NASA facilities. Under one public contract, Air Products will supply NASA liquid H₂ to support operations at the Kennedy Space Center and nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The multi-year contract, which is already in effect, includes a maximum value of approximately $75 MM.

NASA also awarded Air Products a separate public contract, valued at a maximum value of over $57 MM to supply liquid H₂ to facilities across the agency including NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and the Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. NASA uses liquid H₂, combined with liquid oxygen, as fuel in cryogenic rocket engines and H₂’s unique properties support the development of aeronautics.

“Air Products has a long history of working with NASA, stretching from the very beginning of the U.S. space program to the Apollo 11 moon landing, and to the more recent missions to study Mars,” said Francesco Maione, Air Products’ President, Americas. “We are proud to provide NASA with the industrial gases they need for their important work and look forward to continuing our many decades-long working relationship with the U.S. space program.”

Air Products’ working relationship with NASA began in 1957 with the commissioning of an industrial gas plant in Ohio and has since continuously supplied NASA with liquid H₂ and other industrial gases for advancing the U.S. Space Program. In addition to product supply to space launches, Air Products also has had a long-term relationship with NASA’s engine testing program at Stennis Space Center, Johnson Space Center in Texas, as well as Marshall Space Flight Center.

Air Products works across all facets of the H₂ value chain, including production, distribution, storage and dispensing and has been a pioneer in H₂ fueling for decades. The company has announced an industry-leading commitment to invest at least $15 B for clean energy megaprojects around the world, including a $4.5-B clean energy complex in Louisiana; a $1.6-B net-zero energy H₂ energy complex in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a multi-billion dollar investment in NEOM, Saudi Arabia in conjunction with ACWA Power and NEOM, to build a world-scale green H₂ production facility; teaming with World Energy to build a new $2.5-B major expansion project at World Energy’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel production and distribution hub in Paramount, California; and an investment of $500 MM to build a green H₂ production facility in New York that will produce 35 metric tpd of liquid green H₂.

In addition, Air Products has announced additional projects including a $4-B joint venture with AES to build the largest green H₂ production facility in the U.S. in Texas, and a green liquid H₂ production facility in Arizona that will produce 10 metric tpd of green H₂. The company operates the world’s longest H₂ pipeline system in the U.S. Gulf Coast and is a world-class liquid H₂ supplier. Air Products has hands-on operating experience with over 250 H₂ fueling station projects in 20 countries and the company’s technologies are used in over 1.5-MMtpy fueling operations.