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Spaceplane HERMES

Europe's Dream of Independent Manned Spaceflight

Luc van den Abeelen

978-3-319-44472-7

2017
Edition 1
- Presents the first comprehensive book on Hermes: technology and history of the European spaceplane program
- Provides the complete story of Hermes and the reasons for the demise of this ambitious space technology program
- Carefully investigated by studying the original archives and supported by interviews with the key people involved in the program
- Provides a detailed description of the evolution of the design to accommodate changing requirements
- Gives an account of which pieces of technolgy developed for Hermes do survive today, in the 2nd decade of the 21st century, like in ARIANE 5 or ESA's IXV re-entry test vehicle
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