Sending Men To Venus |
Sending Men To Venus |
Jul 20 2005, 04:40 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 212 Joined: 19-July 05 Member No.: 442 |
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 30 2006, 02:25 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
The issue with Bruce Moomaw was not which opinion he held but the fact that discussions he participated in tended to become manned - vs - unmanned arguments, inspiring lots of ranting by him and others, regardless of the original topic under discussion. After discussion with the other admins Doug has decided that the debate isn't constructive toward the stated point of this forum -- discussing unmanned spaceflight. It's not that your or anyone else's specific opinion on the subject isn't 'approved' here; the whole discussion isn't approved, because it derails other discussions. Doug has asked people to refrain from beginning manned-vs-unmanned arguments, and has banned Bruce and others from the forum for failing, first, to honor that restraint and, second, to respond to his requests to desist. I'm sure each of us has a strong opinion on the topic but for the sake of this forum we are all being asked to follow the same rule and keep those opinions off the table.
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