Is NASA Looking To Create Permanent Settlements On Venus? 

While the overwhelming majority of NASA’s recent R&D efforts are focused on getting humans to Mars, they aren’t ignoring other planets, as evidenced by an ongoing project that would send a piloted, helium-filled airship to explore the atmosphere of Venus.

According to a Space.com report published Monday, the project is known as HAVOC (the High Altitude  Venus Operational Concept) and could entail not just investigating Earth’s sister planet, but also establishing human colonies in the clouds that fill its acid-laced skies.

Chris Jones of the Langley Research Center in Virginia told the website that doing so would be “a very big technological challenge,” but noted that it “could be possible down the road.” Does this mean that Venus is another potential target for human exploration – an alternative to Mars? Yes, Jones and his Langley colleague Dale Arney said.

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