i4is Venus balloon concept featured in Forbes

Fast mission to detect microbes on Venus - The joint i4is, FIT, Harvard, Space Initiatives paper: "A Precursor Balloon Mission for Venusian Astrobiology" by Andreas M. Hein, Manasvi Lingam, T. Marshall Eubanks, Adam Hibberd, Dan Fries, William Paul Blase has now been published on arXiv.

Thanks to Bruce Dorminey, it has now been featured in Forbes.

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