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Lift-Off and Getting Home Safely: Preparation, Launch and Landing Facilities

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In a set-up differing from the US Space Shuttle and Soviet Buran systems, Hermes would not return to its launch site in Kourou upon completion of a mission. While both the Shuttle and Buran were refurbished for their next missions at the respective launch sites in Florida and Kazakhstan, Hermes would have to return to Europe to be prepared for a subsequent spaceflight. That is why the prime landing site for the spaceplane was foreseen on the European continent.

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    Luc van den Abeelen

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van den Abeelen, L. (2017). Lift-Off and Getting Home Safely: Preparation, Launch and Landing Facilities. In: Spaceplane HERMES. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44472-7_24

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