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Vienna, VA, June 12, 1996 — SPACEHAB, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPAB) will present its new Double Module at an evening reception on Wednesday, June 19, 1996, from 6:00 pm until 7:30 pm. The Reception will be held at the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility (SPPF) in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The reception will provide journalists with a photo opportunity of the Double Module before it is turned over to NASA for installation into Space Shuttle Atlantis to begin its first mission, STS-79, currently scheduled for launch on July 31, 1996. Individual guided tours of the SPPF and Double Module are available prior to the reception. Sights include an up-close look at the new Double Module, the Double Module used for astronaut training, the vertical training Module for late access experiment and cargo loading, and many of the logistics items and science experiments which will be onboard STS-79.
Available times for tours and photo opportunities prior to the
reception are: Please call Rebecca Gray on (703) 821-3000 or 1-888-492-0490 (pager) to schedule a tour. The SPACEHAB Double Module is SPACEHAB's newest asset to provide commercial logistics resupply services to the Russian Space Station Mir. On its maiden voyage, STS-79, the Double Module will carry more than 7,000 pounds of logistics items and science experiments to Mir. The Double Module currently is manifested for three missions to Mir: STS-79, scheduled for launch on July 31; STS-81, scheduled for launch on December 5; and STS-84, scheduled for launch on May 1, 1997. 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. |