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		taf2 on March 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Recovering telemetry data from Venera-13 and 14 I still think a Venus colony would be super cool and maybe more viable than mars given the available energy and gravity... this just seems so cool https://youtu.be/bcHkWKp9e4Y A cloud city

kjs3 on March 3, 2020 [–]

5 vehicles, 4 (5?) crew transfers? Not to mention some "interesting" environmental conditions. Yeah, it's definitely cool, but wow would it be a complicated mission.

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