Spaceplane HERMES Europe's Dream of Independent Manned Spaceflight /
This is the first comprehensive book on the European Hermes program. It tells the fascinating story of how Europe aimed for an independent manned spaceflight capability which was to complement US and Soviet/Russian space activities.In 1975, France decided to expand its plans for automated satellites...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Origins: re-entry vehicles and orbital factories
- Getting serious: CNES develops a concept
- One or the other: selecting the prime contractor
- Safety rethink: the Challenger accident
- The road not taken: CNES decides against Maia
- The Hague: adoption by ESA
- Ever growing: Hermes gains a module
- Competition and the others: spacecraft from around the world
- Shifting priorities: equipment relocations (1989-1990)
- The transatlantic scene: Freedom struggles, Columbus and the DoD
- Buying time: the six-month extension of Phase 1 (1990)
- Outside influence: the costly fall of the Berlin Wall (1990-1991)
- Change at Munich: stretching the imagination (1991)
- Scaling down: X-2000 and Russia to the rescue (1991-1992)
- Grenada: the end of the road (1992)
- Descendants: of astronauts and wings
- Space freighter for ISS: the promise of ATV
- Hermes’ legacy: a continued mission of sorts
- Keeping in touch: the DRS satellites and Mission Control
- Staying cool: the thermal protection system
- In Orbit Infrastructure: Platforms and Space Stations
- Learning to fly: astronauts and their training
- Inside and out: the space suits and escape systems
- Lift-off and getting home safely: preparation, launch and landing facilities
- Looking back: the Hermes experience
- Afterword
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C.
