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News Release For more information: SPACEHAB NAMES EISELE DIRECTOR, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS Vienna, VA, June 5, 1998 – SPACEHAB, Inc., (NASDAQ: SPAB), the global leader supporting human activity in space and a major provider of support services to manned and unmanned space payloads, announces the appointment of Anne F. Eisele as Director, Corporate Communications. Eisele, who reports to SPACEHAB President and Chief Operating Officer, David A. Rossi, is responsible for media and public relations, corporate identity and advertising, and supporting the company's business and marketing strategies. Eisele joins SPACEHAB following several years as an aerospace journalist and multimedia project manager. Most recently, she was a staff writer at the aerospace trade publication Space News, where she was responsible for covering NASA, space policy and commercial reusable launch vehicle development. Rossi announced Eisele's senior management appointment June 5. "We are very pleased to welcome Anne to the SPACEHAB family, he said. "Anne's journalism background and knowledge of the space industry dovetails directly into SPACEHAB's strategic objective to be a global leader in providing products and services to the commercial space technology industry.” Prior to joining Space News, Eisele was a reporter for the Washington, D.C.-based newsletters New Technology Week and Defense Week. She also served as a researcher and multimedia project manager at The Washington Post Co. and spent several years in Washington and London researching European banking policy and business opportunities for a Wall Street law firm. Eisele holds a Master of Arts degree in Literature from the University of London and Bachelor of Arts degrees in political science and English from Duke University. SPACEHAB, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPAB), with its ASTROTECH subsidiary, is the world's leading provider of commercial payload processing services for both astronaut-tended and unmanned payloads. SPACEHAB is the first company to commercially develop, own and operate habitable modules that provide space-based laboratory facilities and logistics resupply aboard the U.S. Space Shuttles to support the people living and working in space. NASA's ongoing Space Shuttle Discovery mission to the Russian space station Mir, STS-91, marks SPACEHAB's 11th mission. The SPACEHAB Logistics Single Module, Discovery's primary payload, is providing commercial logistics resupply services as part of Phase I of the International Space Station Program. Anne F. Eisele |