Hermes artwork

 aircraft, drawings, projects, spacecraft
Apr 132009
 

In the 1980’s, the French studied the Hermes spaceplane… sort of the midpoint between the Dyna Soar and the Space Shuttle. It took them substantially longer than a decade to figure out that a reusable payload shroud is not that great of an idea. But they cranked out some spiffy artwork in the meantime. The art below came from a variety of magazine/journal articles, scanned quite a few years ago.

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  2 Responses to “Hermes artwork”

  1. Michel Van says:
    April 13, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    Thanks for the Picture

    >took them substantially longer than a decade to figure out
    >that a reusable payload shroud is not that great of an idea.

    French CNES spend 15 years on it (1977 to 1992)
    and last 5 years as ESA program…

    final version was a unmanned “reusable shroud” called Hermes X-2000

  2. Triton says:
    April 13, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    Thanks for posting the cutaways and the other concept art. 🙂

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