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

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

I would rather change the forum name from UMSF to SF. The guy[]s who are participating this forum aren't only bond[ed] to unmanned space flights but also...manned ones.

Well, since Doug owns this forum, that's his call to make, though I'm sure he appreciates the input.

But for those who feel that their particular opinions are getting short shrift here, there's a simple, free solution to cure that. Once you get up and running, let me know. I'd love to read what you (and others) have to write on a given subject -- elsewhere.

[centsworth_II]

Well, since Doug owns this forum, that's his call to make...

Doug receives much deserved praise for maintaining a place for intelligent discussion of UMSF. He rightly (IMHO) sees that this quality would be jepardized if the forums were opened to discussion of manned flight. I generally trust current UMSF members, but once the Buck Rogers, spaceplane types showed up I would face the same problem picking through the forums for realistic, rational discussion of UMSF as I do on other web sites.

[JRehling]

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