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Manned Venus Orbiting Mission
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Manned Venus Orbiting Mission
Credit: NASA
American manned Venus orbiter. A 1967 a NASA study examined requirements for a manned Venus orbiter. It concluded such a mission could be mounted by 1975 using Apollo technology.

Status: Study 1967. Gross mass: 54,400 kg (119,900 lb). Height: 28.00 m (91.00 ft). Diameter: 6.90 m (22.60 ft).

The study looked at a manned orbiting stopover round-trip mission to Venus in the 1975 to 1980 time period. A typical trip in 1980 had the following characteristics:

The manned Venus spacecraft had a total mass of 120,000 pounds, further broken down as follows:



Family: Venus. Country: USA. Bibliography: 2034.
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Manned Venus Orbiting Mission
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