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>>15019098
Fun fact: In the notional drawing that got handed out to Aerospatiale and Dassault during the initial call for bids (picrel), the cargo bay was based on NO study at all and was just there because the project lead had worked on the SPOT satellite and wanted to put a playful reference to it in the concept design.

The cargo bay was always considered doubtfu and useless by many at the head CNE and was later dropped, this single "joke" at the earliest concept stages may well have delayed the abandonment of the cargo bay!