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SPACEHAB
Announces Key Management
Highlights
Vienna, VA, April 24, 1996 -- Citing its strategy to capitalize on the significant growth opportunities associated with microgravity space research and space station logistics and resupply, SPACEHAB, Incorporated (NASDAQ: SPAB), the first and only commercial owner and operator of habitable modules which carry microgravity laboratory experiments and cargo on the Space Shuttle, today announced three management additions. Former NASA astronaut Bernard A. Harris, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.P., was named Staff Vice President-Operations and Director of Life Sciences Programs. Dr. Harris will head the Company's new Houston-based life sciences and biotechnology efforts to develop new techniques and applications for Earth-based processing of scientific and medical experiments conducted in space. He also will investigate opportunities for the Company to develop instruments and equipment to help humans live and work in space more effectively. Of particular importance, Dr. Harris will be implementing SPACEHAB's Incubator Program which calls for evaluating, sponsoring and investing in a portfolio of commercially focused, promising microgravity research and development activities. Research efforts judged to have significant commercial potential will be advanced by Dr. Harris into SPACEHAB's Incubator. SPACEHAB's Science Advisory Committee will play a key role in the Incubator Program. The Advisory Committee is co-chaired by Dr. Edward David, Jr., former Science Advisor to President Nixon, and by Dr. Lawrence DeLucas, former NASA lead scientist for the International Space Station and Director of the Center for Macromolecular Crystallography at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. Vladimir Fishel was appointed Director of Russian Projects. Mr. Fishel, who provided support services for the negotiations on the Shuttle-Mir program between NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin and Russian Space Agency (RSA) Director General Yuri Koptev, will pursue additional opportunities for SPACEHAB to provide resupply and support services to the humans living and working aboard the Mir Space Station and assist RSA with meeting its commitments to provide services during the construction and operation of the International Space Station. SPACEHAB recently completed its first in a series of missions under contract with NASA to resupply the Russian Space Station Mir. This mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis landed March 31, 1996 and NASA returned SPACEHAB's Single Module on April 18, 1996. Mr. Fishel will be based in SPACEHAB's Houston, Texas office. Nick Fuhrman was named Director of Government Relations. Mr. Fuhrman will serve as the Company's primary liaison with the Administration, Congressional members and staff, and appropriate state and local government officials. He will be based in the Company's corporate offices in Vienna, Virginia. During his tenure as Senior Staff Member in the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the House Committee on Science, Mr. Fuhrman was responsible for oversight and budget issues affecting the International Space Station, life and microgravity science programs and commercial and international space use policies. Appointee's Background Dr. Harris, 39, has logged more than 438 hours in space on his two missions, which include the first rendezvous of a U.S. Space Shuttle with Mir in 1995. During this mission, he operated a variety of commercial and scientific microgravity experiments in the SPACEHAB Single Module carried onboard the Shuttle. Dr. Harris has been the recipient of a number of honors and awards including: NASA Outstanding Performance Rating in 1988 and 1993, Presidential Letter of Commendation from President Clinton in 1993, Election to Fellowship in the American College of Physicians in 1994, Congressional Certificate of Commendation from U.S. House of Representatives 12th District of Texas in 1993 and 1995 and Outstanding Contributions to the Community and Education, Ebony/Jet Guide to Black Excellence Program. Dr. Harris is an associate professor in internal medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, a clinical professor at the University of Texas School of Medicine, and adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health. In addition, he has completed a National Research Council Fellowship in endocrinology at NASA Ames Research Center, and has trained as a flight surgeon at the Aerospace School of Medicine, Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the University of Houston, a Doctorate in medicine from Texas Tech University School of Medicine, and he completed a residency in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic. Mr. Fishel, 41, taught the theory and practice of technical translation and reviewing for 13 years at Russia's Belarus Technological University. He also worked for the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences analyzing Western industrial and business materials. He holds a Masters of Liberal Arts from Belarus Foreign Languages University. Mr. Fuhrman, 32, was appointed to the Congressional professional staff in 1995 by Science Committee Chairman Robert S. Walker. He was first appointed to the staff of the Subcommittee on Space in 1991 by F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. Mr. Fuhrman had been responsible for space cooperation and space trade issues with the former Soviet Union. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. SPACEHAB is the first company to commercially develop, own and operate habitable modules that provide space-based laboratory research facilities and logistics resupply services aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle system. With these modules, the Company serves three primary markets: (i) microgravity space research onboard the Space Shuttles; (ii) space station logistics and support; and (iii) ground operations and payload processing services that support both microgravity research and human space flight. For more information: |