Astrotech Corporation is one of the first commercial space companies and remains a strong entrepreneurial leader in the aerospace industry. The Company serves our government and commercial satellite and spacecraft customers with our pre-launch services from our Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary and incubates space technology businesses, now having formed three companies; the 1st Detect Corporation which is developing a breakthrough mini-mass spectrometer first created for the International Space Station; Astrogenetix, Inc. is producing biotech products in space and has recently developed a vaccine candidate for Salmonella; and Airward Corporation is drawing on its space heritage of sending cargo to space and is selling hazardous material containers for the airline industry.