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Hermes was an ESA project to develop a re-usable crew transportation vehicle. Launched by an Ariane 5 rocket, the vessel would transport three European astronauts and 3000kg of cargo to orbit. The project was terminated in 1992, when the fall of the Soviet Union and the increased co-operation between the RKA and the ESA left no need for a European crew transport system.

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to see a Hermes program fly before 2010.
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