A Few Seconds

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August 8, 2162. Humans by now had inhabited the moon, and had a small group to test the conditions of Mars for habitability. They had been there for 20 years. By now, humanity had moved on to its next project throughout the universe. Venus. As our Sister planet, it only made sense if we tested its habitability. A while back, before the space age, and now the techno age, humans thought that Venus was covered in lush forests, and rolling oceans, with a habitable climate and maybe even intelligent life. Now, we've discovered that instead it is similar to something straight from the underworld. Due to greenhouse gases and its atmosphere, the planet is highly uninhabitable for humans.

But just because humans wouldn't survive those conditions didn't mean nothing else could.

That's what this mission was about. How habitable is this planet, and is this evil twin sister of ours, really evil?

I stepped onto the space shuttle, the door closing firmly behind me and strapped myself firmly into my seat. The take off would be the worst part, but after that the crew and the rest of us could float around freely, with our training in mind, as the trip itself would take roughly 100 days. How ironic and carefully planned that the day humans would travel to Venus was the same day that NASA's Mariner 2 launched for Venus, exactly 200 years ago...