Sending Men To Venus |
Sending Men To Venus |
Jul 20 2005, 04:40 PM
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While it is likely that future Venus missions will be robotic craft, at one point someone in NASA carried out an interesting contingency study on sending a manned craft to orbit Venus.
The file (Click here:Manned Venus Mission 1967) works on the assumption that either the NERVA project had been carried through to completion or that NASA had retained the capacity it was developing for Apollo. While the author does not rule out the possibility of a landing on Venus, he notes that owing to the unknown surface conditions they would be highly unlikely. Launch times are given as being between 1975-1986 and are designed to allow 40 days in orbit at Venus. As someone who was growing up during the period mentioned I would like to say that such missions would have been far more interesting than what actually occurred. |
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May 10 2006, 11:06 PM
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If you haven't seen it, Voyage to the Planets and Beyond is a fun show about a 5-man mission to explore the planets. Produced by the BBC. They land on Venus, but not with anything that realistically could have done it. They show a sort of big LEM-like craft, which would never be able to get back into orbit.
A couple annoying technical mistakes: first they show (well in fact David Grinspoon claimed in the special festures) that you can see the surface from under the clouds. Not a chance. Purely from Rayleigh scattering, the visibility closes down to a matter of kilometers near the surface. V.I. Moroz first pointed that out, in an article about low-altitude balloon reconnaissance probes on Venus. Grinspoon also claimed the last spacecraft to land on Venus was Venera-14. (Can you actually make a documentary about space without having David Grinspoon or Neil deGrasse Tyson in it? Hehe.) The Russians had a manned mission plan to Mars and Venus that was to be launched with the N-1: TMK-1. |
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