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From: bob@castle.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: shuttle escape systems
Message-ID: <794@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Oct 89 16:41:31 GMT
References: <538.252A3A3B@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> <34577@srcsip.UUCP> <126311@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1989Oct14.220418.5339@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: bob@castle.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray)
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In article <1989Oct14.220418.5339@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>A recent issue of Flight International had an interesting comment on this.
>The Europeans are wrestling with the issue of an escape system for their
>Hermes spaceplane (which is going to ride up on an Ariane 5, complete with
>two big SRBs -- segmented ones at that, sigh).  The interesting part is

According to the latest news the developers, CNES the
French centre for space studies, have decided to re-design
Hermes to provide ejection seats for the three crew members.

This will delay the first flight from 1995 to 1998.

Starts to sound a familiar story.....
	Bob.