SPACEHAB To Support Commercial Orbital Transportation Partners

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2006--

With NASA's announcement on August 18 of SpaceX and Rocketplane-Kistler as its funded partners under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, the era of commercial space has taken a bold new step. SPACEHAB, Incorporated (NASDAQ:SPAB) has been in the business of providing commercial access to space for over twenty years and has supplied NASA with its research and laboratory modules and carriers for use on the space shuttle since 1993. Currently, SPACEHAB is the only company regularly operating commercial assets to and from space and on the International Space Station. With NASA's COTS award, the emergence of a private space enterprise is here, and SPACEHAB is poised to provide the facilitating services that NASA's new partners will require for a successful commercial endeavor.

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