Colonization of Venus

Artist's rendering of a crewed floating outpost on Venus of NASA's High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC)

The colonization of Venus has been a subject of many works of science fiction since before the dawn of spaceflight, and is still discussed from both a fictional and a scientific standpoint. However, with the discovery of Venus's extremely hostile surface environment, attention has largely shifted towards the colonization of the Moon and Mars instead, with proposals for Venus focused on habitats floating in the upper-middle atmosphere[1] and on terraforming.

  1. ^ Daniel Oberhaus and Alex Pasternack, "Why We Should Build Cloud Cities on Venus", Motherboard, February 2, 2015 (accessed March 26, 2017).