8-K

                            SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                                   Washington, D.C. 20549

                                           ------

                                          FORM 8-K

                                       CURRENT REPORT

                           PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 or 15(d) OF THE
                              SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


                     Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):

                                      January 13, 1998


                                   SPACEHAB, Incorporated
                   (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


                                         Washington
                          (State or jurisdiction of incorporation)



               0-27206                                   91-1273737
      (Commission File Number)                (IRS Employer Identification No.)




                       1595 Spring Hill Road, Vienna, Virginia 22182
                    (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)


                                       (703) 821-3000
                              (Registrant's Telephone Number)





Item 5.     Other Events

            On January 13, 1998, SPACEHAB, Inc. issued the attached press
            release.


Item 7.     Financial Statements and Exhibits

       (c)  Exhibits.

            The following is being filed as an Exhibit to this report.

      99.1 Press Release of the Registrant, dated January 13, 1998.





                                         SIGNATURES


            Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the  Registrant  has duly  caused  this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


                                    SPACEHAB, INCORPORATED



                                    By: /S/ MARGARET E. GRAYSON
                                        ------------------------
                                        Margaret E. Grayson
                                        Vice President and CFO
Dated:  January 20, 1998





                                       EXHIBIT INDEX



Exhibit Number        Description of Exhibit

   99.1               Press Release of the Registrant, dated January 13, 1998.

EX-99.1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


                   ROSSI TO TAKE HELM AS SPACEHAB PRESIDENT
        Veteran Space Executive Chet Lee to Assume New Executive Roles

      Vienna, VA, January 13, 1998 -SPACEHAB Inc. (Nasdaq: SPAB) today announced
the  appointment  of David A.  Rossi as its new  President  and Chief  Operating
Officer,  effective  January 14 1998.  Rossi, a seven-year  senior  executive of
SPACEHAB (SHI),  succeeds  Chester M. Lee, who has served in that capacity since
April 1996.

      SPACEHAB also announced the  appointment of Chester "Chet" Lee to Chairman
of SPACEHAB's  ASTROTECH Space Operations  subsidiary and Special Advisor to SHI
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Shelley A. Harrison.

      Rossi  joined  SPACEHAB in March 1991 as Senior Vice  President,  Business
Development. He has been responsible for marketing and negotiating SHI's primary
Shuttle and Mir logistic and research  support  contracts,  including the nearly
$62 million in contracts and options most recently awarded by NASA, the European
Space Agency and the National Space Development Agency of Japan in December.

      Harrison extolled Rossi's  accomplishments at SHI: "As a leading executive
during SPACEHAB's  formative years,  David has contributed  significantly to our
success in establishing  winning strategies and securing sales and contracts.  I
have every  confidence  that SPACEHAB and our  shareholders  will be well served
with David at the helm as President and COO."

      Harrison   applauded  Chet  Lee's  outstanding   performance  as  SPACEHAB
President  following two exceptionally  noted previous careers with NASA and the
U.S.  Navy.  "Chet  helped  build  a  superior   management  team  at  SPACEHAB,
exemplified by his successful mentoring of our new President. We look forward to
his  continued  assistance  in  growing  our  ASTROTECH  subsidiary  to  be  the
industry's premier pre-launch  processor of  telecommunications  satellites," he
said.

      Rossi joined  SPACEHAB from the Dulles,  Virginia-based  Orbital  Sciences
Corporation  (OSC).  During his eight-year  tenure on the OSC Senior  Management
team, he held several executive  positions in finance and business  development.
He holds a Bachelor  of  Science  degree in  Chemistry  from the  University  of
Pittsburgh and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
      Rossi/Lee Appointments
      2 2 2 2 2 2

      Responding to his new appointment,  Chet Lee characterized his decade-long
tenure at SPACEHAB as "an exciting  venture into the unknown and unproven  world
of commercial Space activities", as well as a gratifying experience. "SPACEHAB's
greatest  resource  since its inception  has been its people.  They are the ones
whose  vision,  innovative  thinking  and "can do" attitude  have made  industry
unbelievers into believers," he said. "It has been my privilege to be associated
with such sterling  people and I look forward to a continuing  association  with
them," he added.

      Of his SPACEHAB President  successor,  Lee said: "David Rossi has played a
forceful role in this company,  and I have utmost confidence that his leadership
as President and COO will lead to increasing success for SPACEHAB."

      Lee joined SHI in 1987 after retiring from NASA.  During his 22 years with
the space  agency,  he held  positions as Mission  Director for Apollo  Missions
12-17  to the  Moon,  Director  for the  Apollo/Soyuz  joint  mission  with  the
then-Soviet Union, and finally, as Assistant Associate  Administrator for Policy
Planning and DOD Affairs in the Office of Space Flight.  In his "first"  career,
Lee served a  distinguished  24-years in the U.S.  Navy,  achieving  the rank of
Captain.

      SPACEHAB,  Inc.,  with its ASTROTECH  subsidiary,  is the world's  leading
provider of commercial payload processing services for both astronaut-tended and
unmanned payloads.  SPACEHAB is the first company to commercially  develop,  own
and operate habitable modules that provide space-based laboratory facilities and
logistics  resupply  aboard the U.S. Space Shuttles to support people living and
working in space.

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Media:                              Financial:
Penelope Longbottom                 Margaret Grayson
VP, Corporate Communications        VP, Finance & Administration and Chief
                                    Financial Officer
(703) 821-3000, Ext. 201                  (703) 821-3000, Ext. 207
longbottom@hqspacehab.com           grayson@hqspacehab.com