Ók. Do you know what a Gas Giant is like Venus? That's what Mr Wiki sais. He might be quite right on that one, I hope. Venus is 162 million miles away and full of resources that can be used for rocket fuel. Venus also has an asteroid belt that might have minerals we know and qutie possible new stuff. Mars is full of rocks and rocks only with nothing to make rocket fuel and its almost as far away with 142 million miles.
So, why and why would you hire Maximus Braun leading Nazi into the NASA after understanding in a meeting what a KZ was and who worked for the never functional German Rocket project?
Maybe, you then later might fly to Mars because you honestly believe you are an Alien that crashed on Earth coming from Venus after a big war when the slaves revolted and need .... no?
And if I tell you I grew up with Brain? Always close....not because of me though. He ist just difficult to get rid off.
And any official reason? Well, there is none realy except astrophyiscal bullshit. 20 million miles close turn irrelveant if the Helium of the Atmosphere can be harvested by gliding through its outer parts to create rocket fuel and bring back the space ship. The Asteroid belt of Venus is just gone from Google like the F-18 was a Tomcat some time ago and I wonder if that is inernet wide or if the NSA just fucks with me. Also Bing shows a picuture of Neptun as Venus, but Jupiter is still the biggest.....anyway....it will be murder....
If I was a cat, I mieuw now, lick my paws and show my anus walking of bitchwalk style. Just I am not.