SPACEHAB, Inc., a leading provider of commercial space services,
today celebrates the achievement of a major milestone, ISO 9001
certification.
ISO – the International Organization for Standardization —
maintains global standards for business operations.
“ISO certification is a vital part of our continuing efforts to
provide quality products and services to our customers,” SPACEHAB
President David A. Rossi told employees gathered for a ceremony at the
company’s Houston base of operations. “Certification will help us to
ensure our continued leadership in the space industry.”
ISO certification entails an extensive audit of business
operations. ISO’s audit of SPACEHAB did not yield any nonconformances.
“Congratulations to everyone at SPACEHAB for contributing to this
important achievement,” said SPACEHAB Quality System Director Jim
Schultz. “SPACEHAB has an excellent Management System in place that
ensures our ability to provide world-class products and services to
our customers.”
ISO is a global nongovernmental federation of national standards
bodies from some 130 countries that aims to encourage the development
of standardization and facilitate global trade. ISO standards
establish specifications that are intended to ensure that materials,
procedures, processes, and services meet customer needs. SPACEHAB’s
customers require the company to be ISO-compliant.
Founded in 1984 and with more than $100 million in annual revenue,
SPACEHAB, a leading provider of commercial space services, is the
first company to commercially develop, own, and operate habitable
modules that provide laboratory facilities and logistics resupply
aboard NASA’s Space Shuttles.
The company also supports astronaut training at NASA’s Johnson
Space Center in Houston and provides commercial satellite processing
services for Boeing’s Delta and Lockheed Martin’s Atlas launch
vehicles near Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
This release contains forward-looking statements that are subject
to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those projected in such statements.
Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to,
whether the company will fully realize the economic benefits under its
NASA and other customer contracts, the timing and mix of Space Shuttle
missions, the successful development and commercialization of new
space assets, technological difficulties, product demand, timing of
new contracts, launches and business, market acceptance risks, the
effect of economic conditions, uncertainty in government funding, the
impact of competition, and other risks detailed in the Company’s
Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
