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ETC's NASTARSM Center to Provide Space Training for Virgin Galactic

Southampton, PA: August 30, 2007 - Environmental Tectonics Corporation's (AMEX:ETC) ("ETC" or the "Company") National Aerospace Training and Research (NASTARSM) Center has signed a contract with Virgin Galactic to provide training for Virgin Galactic's suborbital space travelers. NASTARSM Center is the world leader in aviation and spaceflight training and research, and Virgin Galactic is on track to become the world's first commercial spaceline and provider of private suborbital spaceflights. Virgin Galactic has named NASTARSM Center as its official spaceflight training provider.

According to the contract, NASTARSM Center and Virgin Galactic initially will be cooperating in the training and preparation of Virgin Galactic's Founders. The Founders are the first 100 private space travelers scheduled to take suborbital flights with Virgin Galactic. The contract provides for ongoing training of Virgin Galactic's space travelers after the Founders, and for those seeking a Virgin Galactic-branded space flight experience. This contract puts Pennsylvania on the map as the current center of commercial space training.

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said, "This is an exciting opportunity. NASTARSM Center is a tremendous asset for Pennsylvania. We are honored to have a Bucks County business teamed with a prestigious company like Virgin Galactic."

The training will take place from September through November at the NASTARSM Center facilities near Philadelphia. The NASTARSM Center has been designed specifically to provide training for passengers and crew of the budding private space travel industry.

"Virgin Galactic chose the NASTARSM Center after a comprehensive review of other facilities across the United States and Europe. We are delighted that NASTARSM Center won the day, not only because of their state of the art facilities and professional experience but also because they believe in great customer service. We are delighted to be working with NASTARSM Center and we believe our Founders will be in excellent hands as they undertake this important initial spaceflight experience," said Will Whitehorn, President of Virgin Galactic.

NASTARSM Center's new training programs include space launch simulations with sustained G forces, real-world visuals and an authentically modeled cabin or cockpit. The Virgin Galactic Founders will experience two days of training at the NASTARSM Center, which will give them both a grounding in aerospace physiology concepts and "hands-on" training in a high-performance centrifuge. The experience will culminate in a high-fidelity simulation of the actual launch into space, including the real Gz and Gx forces. Gz is the G force experienced up and down the spine, while Gx is the force felt through the chest.

William F. Mitchell, President and Chairman of ETC, stated, "We are very pleased to be working with Virgin Galactic on this exciting project. Virgin Galactic has an excellent space launch program, and we are glad the NASTARSM Center can help enhance the experience for the Founders and Virgin Galactic's follow on customers."

Virgin Galactic (www.virgingalactic.com) is a company owned and established by Richard Branson's Virgin Group to undertake the challenge of making private space travel available to everyone and by creating the world's first commercial spaceline. Virgin will own and operate privately built spaceships based on the history-making SpaceShipOne. These spaceships, which are currently under construction, will allow affordable private sub-orbital space travel for the first time in history and give customers the opportunity of being among the very first private astronauts.

NASTARSM Center houses state-of-the-art equipment and professional staff to support the training and research needs of the aerospace community, including military aviation (fixed and rotary wing), civil aviation (fixed and rotary wing), space travel (government and private) and research support and data collection. NASTARSM Center's equipment and programs are highly modular and flexible and can accommodate a wide range of aerospace training and research requirements.


FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ETC CONTACT:
Duane D. Deaner, CFO of Environmental Tectonics
Tel: 215-355-9100, ext.1203
Fax: 215-357-4000.

Visit www.nastarcenter.com to learn more.
 

ETC designs, develops, installs and maintains aircrew training systems, public entertainment systems, process simulation systems (sterilization and environmental), clinical hyperbaric systems, environmental testing and simulation systems, and related products for domestic and international customers.

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