Human Assisted Science at Venus: Venus Exploration in the New Human Spaceflight Age
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2020-06-11 v1 Popular Physics
Abstract
Some human mission trajectories to Mars include flybys of Venus. These flybys provide opportunities to practice deep space human operations, and offer numerous safe-return-to-Earth options, before committing to longer and lower-cadence Mars-only flights. Venus flybys, as part of dedicated missions to Mars, also enable human-in-the-loop scientific study of the second planet. The time to begin coordinating such Earth-to-Mars-via-Venus missions is now
Cite
@article{arxiv.2006.04900,
title = {Human Assisted Science at Venus: Venus Exploration in the New Human Spaceflight Age},
author = {Noam R. Izenberg and Ralph L. McNutt and Kirby D. Runyon and Paul K. Byrne and Alexander Macdonald},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.04900},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
A White Paper for the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. 7 pages +cover page, 2 figures +cover image