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Re:Target Venus not Mars for first crewed mission to another... by dehrmann on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:05PM (#32976213)
Would you rather have a moon base or 10 probes exploring the rest of the solar system?
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Re:Target Venus not Mars for first crewed mission to another... by Phrenzy on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:49PM (#32977215)
If I get any input, I would shave some part of the nearly trillion dollar US military budget and use some of that windfall to allow for both of the above options.
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Re:Target Venus not Mars for first crewed mission to another... by squarefoot on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:20PM (#32977483)
A moon base would make the probes mission a lot faster to develop and launch, in the long run.
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Re:Target Venus not Mars for first crewed mission to another... by dehrmann on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:28PM (#32977545)
How so?
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Re:Target Venus not Mars for first crewed mission to another... by squarefoot on Monday September 26, 2022 @11:08AM (#32984114)
By assembling parts of the probes and launching from there for example. It would require a lot of time initially, that's why I specified in the long run.
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Re:Target Venus not Mars for first crewed mission to another... by hypertele-Xii on Monday September 26, 2022 @04:07PM (#32987675)
The hardest part in exploring our solar system is escaping Earth's gravity. Most of the fuel in our rockets and by extension, most of the rocket itself, exists to lift the actual spacecraft off the Earth.

If you can manufacture it on the Moon, you need a lot less rocket.

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Re:Target Venus not Mars for first crewed mission to another... by rightbyte on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:52PM (#32976717)
A moon base please.
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Re:Target Venus not Mars for first crewed mission to another... by ncmncm on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:11PM (#32976907)
Probes.
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