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Sending astronauts to Venus

Astronauts to Venus? It sounds like a joke, delusion or cruel punishment. Yet recently I spent two days at Caltech in a workshop titled ‘Venus Science Enabled by Human Proximity’.

Why would bright and apparently sane people gather to discuss such an outlandish thing? We all know that Venus is an oven, about the last

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