Hermes annotated overview

ESA's Hermes manned spaceplane was planned to service the Columbus Man-Tended Free-Flyer and the International Space Station Columbus Attached Laboratory. The project was approved at the Ministerial Meeting in November 1987; the meeting of November 1992 reoriented Hermes into a technology programme. [Image Date: 27-01-92] [92.01.007-002]