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For Immediate Release: SPACEHAB NAMES BARDOS DIRECTOR, COMMERCIAL PROGRAMS Vienna, VA, July 24, 1998 — SPACEHAB, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPAB), the leading commercial services company supporting manned and unmanned space missions, announces the appointment Russell Bardos as Director, Commercial Programs. Bardos, who reports to Michael E. Kearney, SPACEHAB Vice President for Marketing and Sales, assumes primary responsibility for identifying and capturing new commercial space opportunities for the Company. Bardos brings to the job more than 35 years of experience covering research, development, program management, commercialization and marketing in the aerospace and energy fields. His most recent position before joining SPACEHAB was Deputy to the Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Flight (Space Shuttle) at NASA Headquarters in Washington. During his 17-year tenure at NASA, Bardos held a series of high-level management positions, including Director, Office of Chief Engineer in the Office of Space Flight, and Director of Space Shuttle Propulsion. Previously, he had managed coal gasification commercialization for the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington. In addition, Bardos has 10 years of space-related business development in the private sector. SPACEHAB President David A. Rossi cited Bardos’s decades-long involvement in space transportation development and operations as he announced the appointment. "Russ’s history of success in managing complex, high-visibility technical programs of national significance and his intimate knowledge of civil and commercial space programs are a welcome addition to SPACEHAB’s growing marketing and sales team," Rossi said. Bardos holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, PA. SPACEHAB, with its Astrotech and Johnson Engineering Corp. subsidiaries, is the world's leading provider of commercial payload processing services for manned and unmanned payloads. SPACEHAB is the first company to commercially develop, own and operate habitable modules that provide laboratory facilities and logistics re-supply aboard NASA’s Space Shuttles. The Company also supports NASA astronaut training at Johnson Space Center, Houston.
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