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Change at Munich: Stretching the Imagination (1991)

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Elongating the schedule had been the solution of choice to remedy Hermes’ immediate problems, which were primarily financial in character and technological second. But as the measures taken to keep the spaceplane’s progress more or less manageable were appearing less effective than anticipated, and Hermes’ health was becoming more of a political issue than it had ever been before. The announced delays in the programme as part of the Santa Margherita scenario were appearing not to suffice to sustain its affordability and by mid-1991, more drastic actions were in the cards.

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van den Abeelen, L. (2017). Change at Munich: Stretching the Imagination (1991). In: Spaceplane HERMES. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44472-7_13

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