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Topic: Proposed Apollo-Skylab Manned Venus Flyby
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ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 11-17-2009 09:03 PM
   
For those interested in a fascinating read on "what might have been" and what was being considered for applications of Apollo hardware, take a look at this study from 1967. It examined the feasibility of sending an Apollo CSM/S-IVB on a looping round trip to Venus. |
minipci
Member Posts: 373
From: London, UK
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 11-18-2009 03:49 AM
It can also be downloaded from the: NASA Technical Reports Server.
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jimsz
Member Posts: 618
From:
Registered: Aug 2006
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posted 11-18-2009 10:22 AM
What I understood of it (very little!) the read was interesting.What could have been! Too bad. |
Apollo Redux
Member Posts: 346
From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Registered: Sep 2006
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posted 11-18-2009 05:51 PM
Crazy-go-for-the-gusto-steely-eyed-missile men. Big thinkers they were. Very cool. |
dtemple
Member Posts: 730
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 11-18-2009 09:17 PM
I did not know about this proposal, but was aware of a proposed Venus flyby as a gravity-assist on a mission to Mars in an Apollo block III CSM. If the Venus mission had been approved the Group 6 astronauts probably would have needed to change their group name from XS-11 (as in EXCESS 11) to something more appropriate; some of them would no doubt have flown on these flights. Note the date of the proposal - Feb. 1, 1967; the day before Grissom, White, and Chaffee were buried. This report may have been ill-timed. |
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