Manned Venus Flyby - Orbiter Space Flight Simulator

-- Originally uploaded on April 5, 2010 --

The most complicated mission that I fly. Complex for the thin margins to maintain the original plan. Me to continue the numbers and me to finish with a ship flying over the planet Venus and returning to the Earth. My sincere admiration for people that 43 years before they calculated this mission and they made few errors.

Orbiter Space Flight Simulator not to possess a Saturn-Venus, but the performances of the lunar rocket and the rocket Venus is similar.

A manned Venus flyby was considered by NASA in the mid 1960s as part of the Apollo Applications Program, using hardware derived from the Apollo program. Launch would take place on October 31, 1973, with a Venus flyby on March 3, 1974 and return to Earth on December 1, 1974.

By means of Saturn V technology, would be sent three men toward the interior of the Solar System in a journey of a year of duration, flyby Venus. The spacecraft, similar in design to that later would be sent to the space like the Skylab space station, it was thought so that the astronauts could travel "comfortably" during so much time, returning home in the same way to as the lunar Apollo.

The S-IVB stage would be a 'wet workshop' similar to Skylab, first using the S-IVB engine to launch the mission on course to Venus, and then vented of any remaining fuel to serve as home for the crew for the duration of the mission. The Apollo SM engine would be used for course corrections on the way to Venus and back to Earth, and for a braking burn before the Command Module re-entered Earth's atmosphere. In order to free up more space in the Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter for the docking tunnel connecting the CSM to the S-IVB.

Manned Venus Flyby study, feb. 1, 1967:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790072165_1979072165.pdf


Flight plan

0000.00.00 Launch
0000.12.15 Earth Orbit Insertion
0002.59.53 CSM Separation and transposed
0003.07.53 Docking
0004.37.25 Transvenus Insertion
0005.28.00 Abort Limit (reentry 61 hours later)
2946.33.00 Venus Periapsis
3291.46.00 Mercury approach (0.31 astronomical units)
9515.40.00 S-IVB jettison
9521.48.00 CM/SM Separation
9522.41.47 Reentry
9522.45.14 Chute Open
9522.52.59 Landing

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[RecklessTornado]

There were also plans for a Mars flyby in a similar configuration.

[rseferino1]

@RecklessTornado Yes. In fact, the fan orbiter launched the challenge of traveling to Mars, landing on the moon Phobos and return to Earth. I'm working on Apollo spacecraft interesting videos on various destinations in the solar system.

[helljumpr5150]

Just think of it. If history went along with the MVF and kept exploring outwards instead of staying with the shuttle, we could've had a city on the Moon by now.

[spacestevie2]

@Jimbob8971 To me this is part of the education budget. Rather than waste money on learning to destroy each other we spend money furthering mankind. NASA never reached the insane amount of money we spend on destroying each other. Poverty is only eliminated by Education and poverty. If we had the same mentality about the space program, maybe western history would have been different.  However, we didn't save very much money by letting those boosters rust away.

[helljumpr5150]

@Winner8501 It was in plan, for the mission would be right after the Solar Maxim (1973-1974), the time were solar radiation was at its lowest in an 11 year period. The S4B/CSM structures were thick enough to block out the worst, and there was a planned habitat module to go in between that could've acted as a shelter. Plus the crew would have regular intakes of retinoid medication to boost their immunity against cellular decay. They still ran the chance of ending up sterile though.

[helljumpr5150]

@Winner8501 The moon showed no promise and everyone knew that, yet they still wanted to see men walk on it, and wanting to beat the Soviets. It was a lack of a future destination or greater challenge/competition that wained the public interest in going to other planets since Tricky Dick decided on the Shuttle which is a true dead in space travel.

Venus is not entirely useless, since its atmosphere is rich in elements that can be harvested. (N,CO2,Ar,C,etc.)

[superotherguy1]

This video NEEDS to be remastered! =D

[SR71U2ube]

Theres alot of truth to that comment above. If the spaceshuttle hadnt been developed and turned the US into everybodys bitch for placing their precious sat's into orbit,we could have been shooting further,I believe in being selfish in space exploration.And Im not discounting the shuttle either. It was a great peice of technology but it paused our real mission in space and made space exploration somewhat dull and routine. We need to be oldschool for just a little longer.

[Tyrannobeast]

@helljumpr5150 I noticed that right after starting the video. I feel really dumb now.

[helljumpr5150]

@Tyrannobeast MVF = Manned Venus Flyby

[tnyachot]

@spacestevie2 I was interested in engineering because of space travel. I never was interested in designing a missile or a tank.