The US still hasn’t landed on Venus and probably never will
Not much to gain by going there. Wildly corrosive, too hot, too hard to terraform with present tech.
At 50km high it is literally the most Earth-like environment in the whole of the solar system (outside of Earth / the ISS / Tiāngōng obviously)
You wouldn’t even need a spacesuit or a pressure suit to stand outside, just a respirator and some light protection against acid
Maybe we should try terraforming earth before we start to look elsewhere idk.
Terraforming isn’t on the table anywhere. We can’t even stop fucking up this planet, let alone unfuck it, let alone apply much more advanced unfucking tech on planets without any of the environmental cycles we take for granted.
Space programs do science stuff and military stuff. Revisiting Venus would be for science stuff.
Space programs definitely do science and stuff. All I meant to say was that Venus might not be the lowest hanging fruit for scientific discovery.
It’s really expensive to go there. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t.
I see now how my post could read as an elon-fanboi type “colonize all the things” and that was not what I intended.
I do think Atmospheric sensor clusters on Venus would be pretty awesome. It could give us an interesting set of insights into a wildly different environment.
This is how you remind me of who I really am
Don’t forget first human death in space.
Yeah, it was three cosmonauts during the Soyuz 11 mission. A valve broke open right before re-entry. The cosmonauts probably asphyxiated within 40 seconds. This all happened just above the Karman line (100km) which is what defines where space starts. The capsule finished the re-entry and landing process and they were found dead, they were still warm when the recovery team found them. After this the Soviets redesigned the Soyuz capsule, reducing the capacity to 2 people but allowing them to wear their spacesuits during re-entry and take-off.
It’s kind of amazing only three people have died in actual outer space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents
I’ll point out, more people died in the US space program than the Soviet one.
The worst disaster in space history was the Nedelin catastrophe which also took out some of the USSR’s top minds.
The second worst disaster was the Plesetsk disaster, also by the Soviet Union.
Not sure what metrics you’re using for that claim.
It’s unclear if the Nedelin catastrophe should count. That was done by the military rocket program and not the Soviet Space Program. It did take place at the Baikonur Cosmodrome which is the same place the civilian space program launched it’s rockets from. If you include the Nedelin disaster then you have to include the non-NASA/military rocket disasters of the US. I know the US had at least 2 ICBM disasters with heavy loss of life.
Plesetsk counts because for some reason everybody decided that launching spy satellites is the job of the civilian spaceflight programs.
yankoids stay losing lmaooooooo
