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Old 02-11-2019, 11:05 PM
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Originally Posted by luke strawwalker
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First, a cutaway showing the interior of the Mission Module (MM). [SNIPPED, but only for brevity.]
Thank you for rescuing these manned flyby mission plans from their obscurity! Missions of this type are ^still^ timely, because no one has yet gone so far from the Earth. There are even YouTube videos on these proposed Venus (see: http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...lyby+mis sions ) and Mars (see: http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...lyby+miss ions ) manned flyby missions, *and*:

SpaceX's BFR could loft similar manned planetary flyby spaceships (Bob Bigelow's expandable modules might be ideal for their habitation modules). Also, David S.F. Portree's "DSFP's Spaceflight History" website (see: http://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/ ) contains historical articles--which often contain scale data!--about planned missions and hardware (including these Apollo-Saturn V-based manned Venus and Mars flyby missions [a December 1978 launch window would have allowed *both* planets to have been visited on the same flight!]) that never came to fruition.

I hope this information will be useful.
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