Interesting idea for probes to Venus and the large gas planets, but I don’t see the point of sending astronauts.
LOL exactly.
“Saturn Rukh” by Robert Forward.
In the book they go to Saturn on a mission like this and even encounter moderately intelligent life but at the end of the mission they declare it to be pointless and won’t be back.
I agree. In a hundred years, we will have AI-robots who can travel for a thousand years on some mission....and that’s the path ahead. Same way for missions to Venus.
Yes I agree. Most future space exploration IMO will be done with robots. They don’t need oxygen or 3 squares a day.