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Mr. Lawson has been involved with the international aerospace community for 15 years. In 1989, Mr. Lawson founded Space Marketing, Inc., which successfully worked with the NASA and Russian Space Agency on commercialization of space program initiatives. SMI was responsible for creating a national promotion for the Pepsi-Cola Company in a 1990 "Take Flight with Ideas" campaign with NASA. Mr. Lawson also participated in President George Bush's Outreach Program to evaluate the return to the Moon and ultimately a manned landing on Mars. Mr. Lawson was involved with the Lunar Prospector project that landed on the Moon in mid 1997. In 1992, Mr. Lawson's company created two International Space Exhibits, a Space Station Tour with NASA exhibits and a full scale Lunar Habitat. The two exhibits toured 50 cities throughout the United States and Canada and was visited by more than 20 million people between 1992 and 1996. Mr. Lawson was responsible for executing a contract with Pepsi-Cola to film the first commercial in space outside the Mir Space Station. Pepsi and Mr. Lawson's success led to other promotional space campaigns with corporations such as Frito-Lay and MTV. Mr. Lawson oversees
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