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Spacehab Submits Proposal for NASA Space Station Logistics |
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HOUSTON, March 8, 2006/Satnews Daily/ — Spacehab, Incorporated (NASDAQ/NMS:SPAB) announced on Tuesday that it has submitted its proposal to NASA to demonstrate its capability to provide commercial cargo transportation services to and from the International Space Station while providing space access to various customers worldwide.
A team of internationally renowned aerospace veterans -- Spacehab, MacDonald Dettwiler Associates (MDA) Systems, Inc. and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. -- propose to jointly develop and demonstrate a next generation commercial space service, called Apex, in response to NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Service (COTS) Demonstrations solicitation. This service offers frequent, reliable and affordable access to space in support of NASA's space station needs but also opens the door to commercial access to space by corporations, academic institutions and government users around the globe.
“Our Apex team provides a non-shuttle-based, end-to-end space access service that is an extension of the customer-responsive Spacehab service proven successful over the previous decade on numerous space shuttle and space station missions,” said Michael E. Kearney, Spacehab president and CEO.
Spacehab said it is moving forward with Apex maturity to ensure the success of commercial services to orbit while awaiting the results of the NASA competition.
The Apex service features a family of mission-configurable spacecraft capable of achieving orbit on several families of launch vehicles. Through a patent-pending spacecraft design initiated over one year ago, Spacehab's Apex spacecraft have the ability to ferry equipment and other payload to orbit, rendezvous with and berth to the International Space Station and dispose of or return equipment and experiment results.
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