Hermes on Ariane-5 launcher

ESA's Hermes manned spaceplane, launched by Ariane-5, 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: 1989-00-00] [90.03.006-001]