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Re:NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Expl... by outworlder on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @06:58AM (#8761969)
> Launching it all at once from Earth does not seem like the safest or most efficient answer to getting a very large mission payload into space, given current technology

Or any non-scifi technology that we know of. The rocket equation is harsh.

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Re:NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Expl... by masklinn on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @08:07AM (#8762137)
Even scifi generally does assembly in space. Short of the ability to teleport stuff outside the gravity well for free Δv remains much more manageable by sending lots of smaller payloads.
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