10-11-00

SPACEHAB and Energia receive design award for Enterprise

SPACEHAB, Inc., and its strategic partner RSC-Energia today received a 2001 Design & Engineering Award from Popular Mechanics magazine for their Enterprise™ commercial space station habitat project. Enterprise is a joint endeavor of SPACEHAB, a leading provider of commercial space services, and RSC-Energia, Russia's largest aerospace company.

SPACEHAB Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Shelley A. Harrison and RSC-Energia President Dr. Yury P. Semenov accepted the award for Enterprise. Popular Mechanics Editor-in-Chief Joe Oldham and Science Editor Jim Wilson presented the award to the two chief executives at a ceremony held in SPACEHAB's Washington headquarters.

Popular Mechanics (readership: nine million) issues its annual Design & Engineering Awards to recognize "innovation, invention and exceptionally good ideas" in science and technology, according to the magazine. One Enterprise feature that especially impressed the magazine's editors, who choose awardees, is the commercial broadcasting studio that will be installed aboard the habitat to enable the production and distribution of television and Internet programming. Enterprise is designed to be attached to the International Space Station.

Enterprise is one of eight projects, chosen from among more than 600 nominees, receiving this award. Popular Mechanics will report on Enterprise and other winning projects for 2001 in its December issue.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Linda Billings, Director of Communications
202/488-3500; 888/647-9543; billings@hqspacehab.com