Astrotech Corporation, a leading provider of commercial space services, announced today that the Company will change its Nasdaq stock ticker symbol from SPAB to ASTC, in conjunction with its previously announced name change from SPACEHAB Incorporated to Astrotech Corporation. The stock ticker change has gone into effect for the trading community this morning, Monday, May 4, 2009.

Thomas B. Pickens III, Astrotech’s chairman and chief executive officer stated, “Implementing the new name change and trading symbol better aligns our corporate brand with our vision, and enables us to communicate our message more effectively.”

About Astrotech Corporation
Astrotech is a commercial and entrepreneurial force in the space industry providing a full spectrum of products and services to both the government and private sectors. The Company offers spacecraft pre-launch processing facilities and services, production of valuable commercial products in space, development and extension of space-based products to the consumer market, space access and payload integration services program and engineering support ranging from development and manufacturing of flight hardware to large scale government project management.