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, 11:52 PM
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Of course, those were also the days when every superhero worth his salt had a little boy and a little girl assisting him, too. James Thurber wrote: "I don't know what the parents of these children can be thinking of. When they should be at home or in bed or in school, they are usually trapped in a burning elevator shaft, or lying bound and gagged somewhere."
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Guest_DonPMitchell_* |
May 25 2006, 12:27 AM
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Of course, those were also the days when every superhero worth his salt had a little boy and a little girl assisting him, too. James Thurber wrote: "I don't know what the parents of these children can be thinking of. When they should be at home or in bed or in school, they are usually trapped in a burning elevator shaft, or lying bound and gagged somewhere." Kids get into the darnedest things when you're not keeping an eye on them [attachment=5853:attachment] |
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May 25 2006, 12:39 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
Don:
Many thanks for posting an image with tentacles in it, especially of the deep, hungry, questing and wet variety! You have made my day! Seriously, though, a number of years ago I was lucky enough to go on a day trip to the bottom of Loch Ness (yup, that one) in a decommissioned Deep Sea Rescue Vehicle. For some reason the DSRV had been sold for a song by the US Navy, and had found it's way to Scotland. Although designed to carry dozens of stranded submariners, it only carried six people on the trip I took, so it was seriously roomy and not in the least bit terrifying. The Tom Swift book cover made me chuckle, because although obviously a naive 1950s effort it nevertheless was a reasonably accurate prediction of what the DSRV actually would look like! Unlike most submarines, the DSRV actually had a big glass nose, lots of space, and even a baby conning tower - so maybe some more Tom Swift gadgets will come to pass! Oh, and we saw no sign of anything monstery in Loch Ness; not a flipper, not a tentacle, not a thing! Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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