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 24 2006, 05:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Here is a depiction of a manned USSF Venus expedition (you know
this because they wrote it in big red letters on the side of the ships) from Erik Bergaust's 1962 children's book titled Space Stations: http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~jsisson/gifs/stat1.gif If you haven't already, check out the Web site Dreams of Space with all the glorious books from our childhood (or not): http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~jsisson/john.htm When all spaceships looked like either V-2 rockets or tubes with balls attached to them, the Moon was always craggy and the mountains sharp, Earth never had clouds and always showed its Western Hemisphere, and the daring astronauts were all brave, serious, and men. Except when they depicted children, then it was usually a boy and girl travelling to the Moon together. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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