# 1658: "HAVOC: The Airship of Venus"

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Published: 2026-05-20T07:00:40+00:00
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Interesting Things with JC #1658: "HAVOC: The Airship of Venus" – NASA engineers studied a crewed airship that would float above Venus instead of landing on its deadly surface, because the planet’s upper atmosphere becomes far less extreme while the ground remains hot enough to destroy normal exploration hardware.

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