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| | Germany's Slash in Aid Is Blow to Joint Project, And Perhaps to Others: Manned Flight By Europeans Is Delayed Until 2005 |
 | | Although anticipated in the aerospace industry, the public admission that Hermes might be beyond Europe's financial reach at this juncture was a blow to hopes, particularly in France, that Germany could continue to pour investments into prestigious pan-European ventures. |
 | | In practice, the Europeans, chiefly France and Germany, are under pressure to decide sometime this summer whether to pursue the Hermes program, at an estimated cost of $1 million a day, or turn to the scaled-down alternative of an unmanned space vehicle, known as the Hermes Demonstrator. |
 | | The successive slips in Hermes, which was scheduled at its inception in 1987 to be in space within a decade, might induce participants to shelve their main space programs until the financial climate improves. |
| www.iht.com /articles/1992/05/27/herm.php (719 words) |
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