Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "What They Really Had Planned for Apollo" video.

  1. It would be absurdly cruel to send any crew on a year long interplanetary mission in a craft with so little internal space. For that length of time that's too little space for even one person. Same thing for Orion. Orion might be good as a reentry vehicle but BY ITSELF, it's no good as an interplanetary transfer vehicle. You'd need a transfer HAB, at least an inflated one. A Venus round trip (no landing) would be shorter than a Mars mission, but not ENOUGH shorter. Even the week plus long Apollo missions were pushing it. Inevitable hardships and risks are bad enough without adding torture. Apollo didn't have the exercise facilities of Skylab, ISS, and (for some missions) the Shuttle. Apollo didn't even have a microgravity toilet (though I think Orion has one). The proposed "Apollo Applications" manned Venus flyby would also need a completely different Service Module, The Apollo ones didn't have enough volatiles to provide life support for even one person that long. I like the idea of having a Moon base established before the '80s, however.
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