Would there be any possibility of a manned Venus Mission?
Or is that completely out of the realm of today’s (or even future technology) considering the heat, the high pressure toxic atmosphere of Venus considering that unmanned probes there only survive for a short period of time.
Would this be a possible goal after Mars (if it was successful) or is this out of the realm of even the most dedicated and optimistic group even with unlimited monetary sources
Or is this just another unrealistic dream that is not ever going to happen?
Assuming we could land a return vehicle safely. . . and the atmosphere was something much more benign than sulfuric acid. . . there ain’t a chance in heck with today’s technolgy we could make it back thru the atmosphere as thick as it is. Look at what it takes to get a man-rated vessel out of Earth orbit (Saturn V). In theory it would take even more energy than the Saturn V could put out to puch thru Venus’s atmosphere.
I remember a thread a few years ago regarding Venus. I did some crude back of the envelope calculations and figured out that a nuclear reactor could cool a pretty large sized colony of people on the surface.
So, if you wanna send a lot of mass and people who go there are pretty content to stay there, its not cheap but it is in the realm of doable in the sense that it doesn’t violate laws of physics or require the GDP of 1000 Earths to accomplish.
Obviously, someone has thought of the idea of visiting Venus with the floating platform.
Didn’t even think about being able to lift off through the heavy atmosphere of Venus and their gravity that would be similar to Earth (even without the Sulfuric acid atmosphere)
Could even a rocket be designed that could lift off a manned capsule? Never mind that everything would have to be transported to Venus for this.
This would even be harder than I originally thought
Going to something a little easier, would it even be possible for an unmanned probe to go to Venus and return to Earth?
Very hot, very corrosive, highly pressurized (about 90 earth atmospheres or 3,000 feet under tha sea). You’d either need some fail-proof force field technology or some really durable construction materials to survive on the surface.
So…where are we with the force fields, and at what point does the solar wind become an impediment to traveling close to the sun?
Our launch strategy would need to change, using flexible or ridged balloons or fixed or rotary winged aircraft for the first (and perhaps 2nd) part of the accent. Perhaps to a floating station, perhaps direct to orbit.
We would only need to orbit and dock (or be docked with), not return directly.
Absolutely hilarious novel about sending the morons to Venus thinking it was paradise judging by the description although I don’t think that it was considered to be hilarious when written
on top of costing us pointless biillion of $ to attempt. Wth do you think we’d gain from trying, anyway? Nothing we’ve gained from NASA could not have been developed for 10x less money. Just the fact that they had to use TAX money to do it tells you, right off the bat, that it’s a loser proposition.
Hopefully considered only as can we do it, not lets do it. A 1 year stint in a spacecraft just to flyby another planet seems like a terribly cruel thing to do.
Also looking at the number of early failures of probes to the moon, specifically missing it time and time again, with orbiters, landers, impactors and even missing it with flyby’s again it is amazing that the Apollo program actually managed to get there. Though they used stepping stones, instead of hail Mary’s, so perhaps that was the difference.
