Description United Space Alliance (USA) is a space-race heavyweight; the Houston-based prime contractor runs NASA's 173,000 pound Shuttles -- Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. USA, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, was established in 1996 in response to NASA's move to consolidate multiple Space Shuttle contracts under a single entity. The company provides mission operations, astronaut and flight controller training, flight software development, Shuttle payload integration, and vehicle processing, launch, and recovery operations. It also leads training and operations planning for the International Space Station. USA serves the Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, and Marshall Space Flight Center.
United Space Alliance has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 235 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The United Space Alliance employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).
Employees rate United Space Alliance 4 out of 5 stars based on 235 anonymous reviews on Glassdoor. In 2012, United Space Alliance employees have voted their company to be one of Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work.
Overall, 64% of employees would recommend working at United Space Alliance to a friend. This is based on 235 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
86% of job seekers rate their interview experience at United Space Alliance as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at United Space Alliance.