text: "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" we "- have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world." The author reports that not one spacecraft lasted more than a few hours, luckily we sent the missions "unmanned". He says this is the main reason why no one has tried to explore further. Although this setback we still continue to work towards learning more about Venus the "evening star", coming up with different ideas for example from the article we could hover over the planet at a safe distance. But we still struggle to land and bring back samples.