Manned Venus Flyby - Orbiter Space Flight Simulator

http://www.facebook.com/orbiterfilmmaker Facebook. Advances, pictures, details, comments. -- 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