SPACEHAB

SPACEHAB is an aerospace company based out of Arlington, Virginia that has had several modules fly aboard the Space Shuttle. The first such flight was the Spacehab Space Research Laboratory, which was on STS-57 in June 1993. The Spacehab module was used on 7 Shuttle-Mir missions.

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The Columbia disaster deeply affected SPACEHAB, as onboard STS-107 was their new Research Double Module that had over 100 experiments onboard. In January 2004 they filed a formal claim against NASA for the amount of $87.7 million for the loss caused by the disaster. In February 2003 they had recieved $17.7 million from the proceeds of its commercial insurance policy, and in October 2004 NASA gave them $8.2 million .

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SPACEHAB proposed a Commercial Enterprise Module developed by RKK Energia for the Russian Federal Space Agency to be attached to the International Space Station in place of the cancelled Docking and Stowage Module. The Russian Federal Space Agency planned on renting it out to the other space agencies; they were awarded the 2001 Design & Engineering Award from Popular Mechanics. In 2001 they were expecting to have launched the module by 2003 . Since 2002 nothing has been heard about "Enterprise", and it seems that due to lack of funds it is being replaced with the Multipurpose Laboratory Module.

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