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Ever Growing: Hermes Gains a Module (1988–1989)

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The approval of Hermes at the Ministerial Conference in The Hague had ushered in Phase C of the programme: the industrial design of the spaceplane’s subsystems and equipment and their interfaces. Although the initial concept of Hermes basically envisaged it as a crew taxi to take up astronauts to a space station, the vehicle had been growing rapidly in its capabilities. This however also meant a growth in complexity and mass, which was starting to create problems accommodating subsystems in the confined space of the modestly sized vehicle.

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    Luc van den Abeelen

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van den Abeelen, L. (2017). Ever Growing: Hermes Gains a Module (1988–1989). In: Spaceplane HERMES. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44472-7_7

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