I wouldn’t call myself a fan of steampunk, but I will say it’s the healthiest way to prepare punk.

Loon?

That's the steam punk version of satellite internet :-)

Balloons instead of satellites!

Humans go there with Balloons, too.

https://www.ucf.edu/pegasus/why-alan-eustace-jumped/

Alan wondered

>Is it possible to build a scuba diving system for stratospheric exploration?

Or SpinLaunch. Even crazier!

You cannot launch a rocket with steam, but you could actually power a spin launch with enough, and big enough steam engines.

Jules Verne was close with the Baltimore Gun Club.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon

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Try r/space or r/steampunk

Not professionally associated with the clock work rover proposals but I have spent time reading up on the tech. Tom Scott did a cool video where he visited a museum that had a 1930s built “spacesuit” that had been proposed for a moon mission. Mechanical computers have some solid heritage, with mechanical analogue computers in destroyers being very cool (this video does a great job explaining how they worked and would give context for potential Venus mechanical rovers https://youtu.be/s1i-dnAH9Y4 ) Back when I was doing my undergrad DARPA was sponsoring a nano mechanical computer https://www.cnet.com/science/darpa-funds-mechanical-nanocomputer/ (personally haven’t done much follow up on that) And for a personal project I wrote a few blog posts about making air hockey tables on the moon. The idea being you could provide a flexible launch augment using waste oxygen. Oh and while less stereotypical steam punk, if you haven’t already seen it you may want to check out compliant mechanisms. https://youtu.be/uvPSsUkLypY (this YouTube channel has some great explainers from a Prof at UCLA who is doing cool stuff in the field. While compliant mechanisms are less overtly steampunk as the field is relatively new itrepresents making smarter materials through mechanics instead of electronic processing