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[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

[djellison]

I would rather change the forum name from UMSF to SF.

Not going to happen. Ever. Want a place to talk about manned spaceflight in a major way, make one yourself. The manned spaceflight section here has been THIS CLOSE (fingers close together) to getting culled, because it's the place where 90% of the arguments, flame wars and resultant bans and mod activity have to happen.

There are plenty of places that disucss manned spaceflight...but very few that do what this place does.

Doug