In article ov,
Bill Higgins wrote:

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Stephen Souter wrote:

In article ,
Tony Sivori wrote:

Stephen Souter wrote:
"The White House plan, detailed in internal documents, also
mentions the possibility of sending humans to asteroids or moons of
Jupiter."
--http://www.space.com/news/bush_science_040114.html

Europa! By robot or by manned mission, we really need to find out if
anything lives in that sea.

Probably not Europa (unless they could burrow in under the ice). At
least at first. Or Io or Ganymede. But Callisto, as I understand it, is
far enough outside the Jovian radiation belts for humans to survive; and
it could be used as a forward base.

It's got its own gravity well. Find a little prograde satellite near the
equatorial plane, and burrow into that.

But then you have got the same health issues of dealing with
weightlessness (or next-to-weightless) as you would have on a long space
voyage, with an additional complication of one possible solution (spin
the spacecraft to create artificial gravity) being not an option.

--
Stephen Souter

http://www.edfac.usyd.edu.au/staff/souters/