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This could still be a decent idea, a good way to test long term spaceflight outside of low earth orbit without the additional burden of executing a landing and
by robryan 14y ago
This could still be a decent idea, a good way to test long term spaceflight outside of low earth orbit without the additional burden of executing a landing and getting them back off the surface for a Mars mission.
- InclinedPlane 14y agoErm, not exactly. The problem with interplanetary manned missions is radiation from solar flares. The closer you get to the Sun the worse off the problem gets. A Venus mission with the Apollo hardware would have almost certainly killed the crew due to radiation exposure. A better protected spacecraft is possible but that requires a fairly significant amount of mass.