The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) terminated its $180 million contract with Oceaneering International Inc., a Houston company that was chosen in June to supply the space agency with next-generation suits.

Oceaneering International Inc. was founded in 1964 and deals with applied technology, offering engineering services and hardware for several domains such as marine and space environments.

They were chosen in favor of Hamilton Sundstrand, which has made the suits since 1981.

NASA issued a statement Friday saying, "a compliance issue requires the termination of the contract with Oceaneering ... for the convenience of the government."

Officials at Oceaneering didn’t make any comments so far. They had signed the contract for design and development through September 2014.

NASA had awarded the contract on June 12 and the spacesuit will protect astronauts during Constellation Program voyages to the International Space Station and, by 2020, the surface of the moon. The Constellation Space Suit System contract is for design, development, test, evaluation and production of equipment to support astronauts aboard the Orion crew exploration vehicle, the Altair lunar lander, and during human exploration of the surface of the moon.

On the other hand, Hamilton and ILC Dover protested the contract award last month. They had been the suit suppliers since the Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s. The NASA space suit is the company's most recognizable product. Nevertheless Hamilton mainly supplies heating, cooling and other systems for aircraft.

In a statement Friday, the venture between Hamilton and ILC Dover said that there is still a chance that "significant errors and deficiencies in the procurement we have protested thus far" may not have been corrected.

What people from NASA have in mind when it comes to revolutionary space suits are features such as protection against the launch and landing environment, needed in rather extreme situations, as well as well improved walking resistance.