Sending Men To Venus Options

[gndonald]

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.

[RNeuhaus]

I would rather change the forum name from UMSF to SF. The guygs who are participating this forum aren't only bond to unmanned space flights but also of manned ones. Both are complementary. The manned space flights depends from unmanned space flights since the unmanned ones are the first to conquer the unknown frontiers. Then, the unmanned space flight will depend from manned space for a more advanced explorations that might happen in the future such as children spaceships obeying the commands from the mother spaceships to facilite special explorations.

Rodolfo

[centsworth_II]

The [guys] who are participating this forum aren't only [bound] to unmanned space flights but also of manned ones. Both are complementary.

Not with the current budget. Sure, it would be great to plan a manned orbiting mission to Mars and talk about all the wonderful robots that they could control on the surface from orbit. But this is pure science fiction for the forseeable future.

Unfortunately the reality is that manned and unmanned missions are competing, fiercely, for sparce budget dollars.