Talk:Manned Venus Flyby
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[edit] Why didn't this happen?
It would be nice to have some info on why this plan didn't materialize. -- 85.182.123.225 02:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- The most obvious explanations are that it would be expensive, the Saturn V was canceled, and improvements in unmanned spacecraft made the manned mission rather redundant: an unmanned orbiter could achieve more than a manned mission could in the few hours that it was near the planet. I guess we could add a paragraph on that, but I'm not aware of any cites for specific reasons. Mark Grant 02:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
See also the TMK-1 Soviet project.--Afterthewar 22:00, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
- TMK (version TMK-MAVR).--Afterthewar 18:15, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
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- Thanks, I'd never heard of that before! Mark Grant 03:30, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Likely bogus
I think this article is a hoax.
1., You simply cannot have enough food and water for three people for one year onboard without resupply. The much larger ISS (Mir) like 6 months / resupply ship visit, which is not possible for an interplanetary mission.
2., One full year without gravity would inevitably weaken the bones and muscles of astronauts so much that a second cosmic speed re-entry is not survivable. Simple medical fact of life, for which we still have no solution, despite decades of Salyut, Mir and ISS experience.
3., In less than one year, they would get killed by particle radiation so close to the Sun in a thin-skinned module. They have nowhere to go in case of a solar storm.
I think this article was created as an April's fools item. 82.131.210.162 (talk) 13:41, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
