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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Jun 29 2006, 11:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Enough with the anti-manned-spaceflight agenda?
Please? -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jun 30 2006, 12:54 AM
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Enough with the anti-manned-spaceflight agenda? Please? -the other Doug An opinion is not an "agenda". But since Bruce Moomaw was kicked off this forum for expressing that opinion, I guess I should watch out, eh? I don't think we should stifle people's opinions, just becaues we disagree with them. It is not an unusual opinion to think ISS is an unsound project. I am not opposed to manned spaceflight. I am opposed to wasteful manned spaceflight. ISS is expensive and has little real scientific value. If nations were paying equally for it, I might feel better about the "Every country gets to have an astronaut!" concept. But ISS and the shuttle are a serious drain on NASA's resources now. People should go into space when there is a real destination, not just as a publicity stunt. We should start thinking about robotic terriforming projects, for example. Or figure out a commercial value for space stations, like for example human entertainment. |
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