Hermes (shuttle)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Hermes was a proposed mini-space shuttle designed by the European Space Agency in the 1980s. The Ariane 5 launcher was specifically designed to be capable of launching the manned space vehicle. However the project was cancelled before any manned operations.

The original article can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_(shuttle).
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.