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PRAXIS BOOKS SPACEPLANE HERMES - LUC VAN DEN ...

This is the first comprehensive book on the European Hermes program. It tells the fascinating
story of how Europe aimed for an independent manned spaceflight capability which was to
complement US and Soviet Russian space activities. In 1975  France decided to expand its plans
for automated satellites for materials processing to include the development of a small 10 ton
spaceplane to be launched on top of a future heavy-lifting Ariane rocket. This Hermes
spaceplane would give Europe its own human spaceflight capability for shuttling crews between
Earth and space stations. The European Space Agency backed the proposal. Unfortunately  after
detailed studies  the project was cancelled in 1993. If Hermes had been introduced into service
it could have become the preferred space taxi for ferrying crews to and from the International
Space Station. But that opportunity was lost. This book provides the first look of the complete
story of and reasons for the demise of this ambitious program. It also gives an account which
pieces of Hermes survived and are active in the 2nd decade of the 21st century. This
fascinating story will be a great read for space enthusiasts. But it will also serve as a
comprehensive documentation of an important episode in the history of manned spaceflight.

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