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4. One of my professors had boxes and boxes of papers on an Apollo Venus orbit mission

Mon Sep 28, 2015, 12:35 AM

Sep 2015

And he insisted it wasn't considered crazy or far fetched when they were working on it.

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If the Apollo program had continued [View all] DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 OP

Many years ago, on NPR, SheilaT Sep 2015 #1

I found artists' conceptions of that view online DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 #2

Yep. Wouldn't it have been amazing? SheilaT Sep 2015 #3

Would the 1492 media have filmed massacres of the indigenous? JackRiddler Sep 2015 #5

Maybe. SheilaT Sep 2015 #9

Unknown to whom? JackRiddler Sep 2015 #10

Yeah, one of the proposed Apollo Applications Missions was a Venus flyby. Warren DeMontague Sep 2015 #8

He said the human concern was insanity or drug dependence Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2015 #14

If 1970's battery technology was better.. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2015 #6

epic men of flesh and blood Facility Inspector Sep 2015 #12

like this edhopper Sep 2015 #13