AEROSPACE

Rockwell Gets Space Mission Contract: The aerospace firm received an $18-million contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to prepare a Russian spacecraft docking device for use on a U.S. space shuttle, Rockwell International Corp. said. The device will be used by astronauts in a June, 1995, joint U.S.-Russian space mission that will include the shuttle’s docking with a Mir space station. The Russian device is known as an androgynous peripheral docking assembly. The APDA will be prepared at Rockwell’s Downey facility for integration into a docking kit that NASA will install in a shuttle orbiter.