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Re: Manned Venus Flyby
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Sep 2, 14:40 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Sep 2, 14:40 -0400
Greg, I understand that I touched a topic which is very far away from the list scope: > This would have been as cool as walking on the Moon. It could have been > done at reasonable cost but the 70's were recessionary times. Recessionary for all 40 years since then? Well, perhaps... > It seems to me that a manned Venus flyby should be done before an attempt > at Mars. My main question is about "should be" (?) We have enough unsolved problems here on Earth. Can we really afford spending large resources on this? Alex.
