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Competition and the Others: Spacecraft from Around the World

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In the late 1980s visitors of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport, the world’s most prestigious aerospace exhibition, would find themselves knee-deep in spaceplanes. The US Space Shuttle had just resumed missions after the programme’s first accident and its potential successor, the NASP, was under development. The Soviet Union had just introduced Buran; ESA was working on Hermes while Germany was developing Sänger. Like its German counterpart, the UK’s HOTOL also promised routine access to space through innovative engine technology. Japan was preparing for their HOPE vehicle and also aiming for a SSTO spaceplane.

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van den Abeelen, L. (2017). Competition and the Others: Spacecraft from Around the World. In: Spaceplane HERMES. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44472-7_8

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