CNES “HERMES” [DASSAULT,1985]

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The Dassault-Breguet exhibit at the 1985 Paris Air Show featured this model of the company's Hermés design. Note the two miniature spacewalking “spationauts” and satellites inside the open cargo bay. Dassault & Aerospatiale submitted competing proposals to the French national space agency CNES in April 1985. By this time the French aerospace industry and CNES were aggressively lobbying the European Space Agency to adopt the Hermés project as a pan-European “new start” for the 1990s.