Want To Live Above The Clouds on Venus? NASA May Soon Give Wings To Your Dream

If you ever wanted to spend your life in the sky above clouds, then we have some good news. The US space agency NASA that plans to turn this fantasy dream into a reality by building a permanent human colony in the floating cloud city right above the Earth’s sister planet, Venus.

NASA wants to carry out the High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC) mission and send solar-powered airships to explore the atmospheric conditions of the Earth's closest planetary neighbor. The decision has been taken after Dale Arney and Chris Jones, NASA researchers proposed that it is better to visit Venus before sending humans to Mars.

The researchers proposal makes sense as the upper atmosphere of Venus is "probably the most Earth-like environment that's out there." But how would researchers carry out the entire operation is the big question—the planet is more closer to Sun and receives 40% more solar power as compared to the Earth.

A cnet report reveals the entire NASA plan and suggests that the HAVOC mission would comprise of various missions. The first mission on Venus would be a robotic mission, which will then be followed by another crewed mission to the planet. The crew would spend 30 days on the planet. If successfully done, then lastly, there will be another mission, consisting of a 30-day atmospheric stay in Venus.

All these missions will be followed by a crew of two members, who will spend a year in the atmosphere of Venus. And then, NASA would make the Venus cloud city project a reality.

NASA also disclosed that a helium-filled, solar-powered airship would delve deep into the atmosphere of the Venus. Then, looking at the robotic mission, the version would nearly be 31 meters long. On the one hand, the crewed version would approximately have a length of 130 meters. The crewed version, on the other hand, would come with a small habitat and the ascent vehicle.
Now, if you are wondering that how would the space researchers travel between Venus's orbit and home? Well, they’d be using a winged two-stage rocket hanging below the solar-powered airship.
An 'IEEE' report suggests that using existing or very near-term propulsion technology, a crewed mission to Venus would approximately take a total of 440 days.