Rocketplane Global George Law VP CE PR r2

4300 Amelia Earhart Lane Oklahoma City, OK 73159 For Immediate Release – Dated May 27th, 2008 Dr George E Law has joined the Rocketplane Global team as the Vice President and Chief Engineer In this position Dr Law will be responsible for all aspects of the Rocketplane XP design He will lead the team through multiple design reviews as well as the first flight readiness review that will allow flight testing to begin Dr Law comes to the company from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Ft Worth Texas where he was the LM Aeronautics Company Chief Engineer David G Faulkner, CTO & Program Manager of Rocketplane Global said, “We are excited to bring George on the team because his experience as a Chief Engineer spans several extremely successful programs George’s career has been marked by making what seems impossible look easy, as it was when he led the engineering team on the X-35 JSF Demonstration Program On that program they had several industry firsts and a flight test program that was the fastest and most successful of all the X planes This experience makes George vital to our program I believe he will recreate some of this same magic for us.” Dr Law graduated from Drexel University with a Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering and joined Lockheed Martin (then General Dynamics) in 1981 He began managing numerous Independent and Contract Research and Development activities in the area of advanced composite development In 1985, he became Chief of the Composite Structures Certification Group, responsible for all critical composite structures Dr Law was selected as the Chief Engineer for the Lockheed Martin JSF X-35 Demonstration Aircraft Program in 1999 Dr Law was an integral part of the JSF X-35 project from cradle-to-grave, beginning with advanced design concepts, and culminating in record-setting flight test programs at Edwards Air Force Base and Patuxent River Naval Air Station In 2002, Dr Law returned to Edwards as Chief Engineer of the F-22 Combined Test Force/ Flight Sciences Aircraft as part of a team successfully completing expansion of the flight envelope to support entry into IOT&E In 2003, Dr Law was named Chief Engineer of the F-16 Program The F-16 Program remains vibrant Nine F-16 type versions were in various stages of design development or production during his tenure Dr Law returned to the JSF Program in 2004 as the F-35 Chief Engineer He led the Lockheed Martin technical team through successful Critical Design Reviews of the Conventional Take-Off and Landing (CTOL) and Short Take-Off Vertical Landing (STOVL) F-35 Aircraft He secured the Flight Clearance for the first F-35A leading to a successful first flight in December 2006 Dr Law has received numerous industry awards, including the 2001 Outstanding Engineering Achievement Merit Award from The Engineers Council Inc., the AIAA 2002 Aircraft Design Award for development of an original concept for the X-35B, STOVL aircraft Drexel University selected Dr Law at their first Engineer of the Year in 2002 About Rocketplane Global Rocketplane Global, Inc was formed in 2001 to develop, build, and operate vehicles to serve the suborbital space tourism market Since 2004, Rocketplane has been developing the Rocketplane XP suborbital space vehicle The vehicle will take passengers beyond 100km in altitude during its flights to space where the passengers will experience more than three minutes of weightlessness and a view of the earth previously only available to astronauts The company is also designing the vehicle to address science related missions that will be much more affordable and available to researchers than current vehicles For more information, please visit the website: Rocketplane Global – Beyond Earth, Beyond Imagination® www.rocketplaneglobal.com Contact – George French III Marketing & Sales Rocketplane Global gfrench3@rocketplane.com ... visit the website: Rocketplane Global – Beyond Earth, Beyond Imagination® www.rocketplaneglobal.com Contact – George French III Marketing & Sales Rocketplane Global gfrench3 @rocketplane. com ... development of an original concept for the X-35B, STOVL aircraft Drexel University selected Dr Law at their first Engineer of the Year in 2002 About Rocketplane Global Rocketplane Global, Inc was formed... space tourism market Since 2004, Rocketplane has been developing the Rocketplane XP suborbital space vehicle The vehicle will take passengers beyond 100km in altitude during its flights to space