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On Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 7:17:19 AM UTC-4, Jeff Findley wrote:
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On Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 11:32:01 PM UTC-4, wrote:

"Dale Arney and Chris Jones, from the Space Mission Analysis Branch of NASA?s
Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate at Langley Research Center, in
Virginia, have been exploring that idea. Perhaps humans could ride through the
upper atmosphere of Venus in a solar-powered airship. Arney and Jones propose
that it may make sense to go to Venus before we ever send humans to Mars.

If that airship sprung a leak, what would be their backup plan?

They would literally descend into the pits of Hell.

They'd surely just leave. They have to have a way to get back into
Venus orbit to get to a transport that would take them back to earth.
So, that would double as an emergency escape mechanism.

They would need to have another airship nearby and a way to quickly move all
the people to that airship.

That's a possibility, but not what I was thinking.

Or have a rocket with enough passenger capacity to go to orbit.

This is what I was thinking. Since the crew likely doesn't want to say
in the atmosphere of Venus forever, they presumably already have a
launch vehicle which will get them from the airship back to Venus orbit.
That would double as an escape vehicle.

Otherwise they would be toast.

Agreed.

Jeff
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