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The Hague: Adoption by ESA (1987–1988)

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The Ministerial ESA Council Meeting in Rome had prepared the road for Hermes to become an ESA programme and the Hermes Preparatory Programme was already underway. But the official adoption of the spaceplane by the agency was still ahead and a finance-intensive decision on the trio of major programmes, Hermes Columbus and Ariane 5 was necessary if Europe was to achieve its goal of developing an independent manned space programme. A lot was riding on the outcome of the meeting in The Hague.

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    Luc van den Abeelen

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van den Abeelen, L. (2017). The Hague: Adoption by ESA (1987–1988). In: Spaceplane HERMES. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44472-7_6

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