ASTROTECH &lt;AIX> DIRECTOR BUYS COMPANY STOCK

  Astrotech International Corp said
  its director S. Kent Rockwell, who controls Rockwell Venture
  Capital Inc, will buy 27 pct of the company's cumulative
  preferred stock.
      It said will buy up to 302,300 shares of Astrotech's 1.80
  dlrs cumulative preferred stock.
      It said the shares are owned by W.F. Rockwell Jr, chairman
  and chief executive officer of Astrotech and S. Kent Rockwell's
  father.
  

