# Is there any possibility of a Manned mission to Venus **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 1, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-possibility-of-a-manned-mission-to-venus/721355 "2015-06-01T16:54:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-possibility-of-a-manned-mission-to-venus/721355/21 "2015-06-02T13:05:45Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > 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. > > . Bette[r then making them do it while going round](http://www.space.com/19650-mir-space-station.html) and round the same Planet. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-possibility-of-a-manned-mission-to-venus/721355/22 "2015-06-02T16:17:05Z")
> [@ufel](#): > > since it’s 15 years each way This seems way to long to me. Do you have a cite? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-possibility-of-a-manned-mission-to-venus/721355/23 "2015-06-02T16:33:58Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Bette[r then making them do it while going round](http://www.space.com/19650-mir-space-station.html) and round the same Planet. Well, its probably a bit better than being on the ground stuck doing the same thing 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-possibility-of-a-manned-mission-to-venus/721355/24 "2015-06-02T16:37:58Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > This seems way to long to me. Do you have a cite? The above mentioned proposed manned Apollo flyby mission to Venus and return was apx 1 year. I believe the time from earth to Venus for probes (landers and orbiters) has been done in about 1 month fight time. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-possibility-of-a-manned-mission-to-venus/721355/25 "2015-06-02T16:52:56Z")
[QUOTE=ufel] since it’s 15 years each way. . . . [/QUOTE] > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > This seems way to long to me. Do you have a cite? That was an old mission plan, which would have used a modifed Cessna 150. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-possibility-of-a-manned-mission-to-venus/721355/26 "2015-06-02T17:20:26Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > That was an old mission plan, which would have used a modifed Cessna 150. I just read a retro sf story set in a very weird solar system with atmosphere between the planets where the trip to Venus was made in a dirigible, IIRC. Venus was also the 1930s version with jungle. It was a hardboiled detective story placed in this universe. Lots of fun. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-possibility-of-a-manned-mission-to-venus/721355/27 "2015-06-02T17:21:54Z")
> [@ufel](#): > > 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. Since this is GQ, I’m sure you will give us your qualifications for evaluating the effectiveness of NASA development projects. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-possibility-of-a-manned-mission-to-venus/721355/28 "2015-06-02T18:38:12Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Well, its probably a bit better than being on the ground stuck doing the same thing 🙂 Yes I believe we call those things prisons. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-possibility-of-a-manned-mission-to-venus/721355.md?page=1)