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>>15336721
This and loss of hope and enthusiasm.

Could Shuttle-era NASA be convinced to do picrel?

>>15092921
>a manned mission to Venus
You mean like the concept mission in the Apollo Applications Program? That could definitely work, especially with the concept of a wet workshop. The SLS core is huge so there would be plenty of volume to work with. NASA wouldn't even have to start from scratch, Shuttle core wet workshop studies were already done a long time ago. The only two problems I see with this are the political inertia ("why should we send people there when a probe will do?"), and radiation issues from being in deep space for so long.

Would it work?

>>11621084
Just reuse it for lunar lifting until it's flying days are over, then wet-workshop it into a new habitat on the moon.