There may be life in Venus' clouds, and Rocket Lab wants to help find it.

The California-based spaceflight company, which gives small spacecraft dedicated rides to Earth orbit, aims to go interplanetary soon, with a robotic astrobiology mission to the second rock from the sun.

"I'm madly in love with Venus," Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck said on Aug. 5 during a company update and Q&A session livestreamed on YouTube. "I'm working very hard to put together a private mission to go to Venus in 2023."

Life in the Venusian skies?

Beck's love springs in part from the lessons we can learn from Venus, which he described as "Earth in a climate-change disaster." But a bigger motivator is Venus' astrobiological potential.