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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I think just low earth orbit.
    Not orbit but it reached the Kármán line which many accept as defining the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and Space.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    Holy crap - did you see that booster land?
    Yea that was nice.

    The capsule landing was more of a plop.
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    I'd rather lease a condo on a beach somewhere and have years of enjoyment. A large fart could lift you off your bed and have you feel weightlessness for less.

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    I would not pay for such a trip, even if I had the money. I think Bezos is the least effectual space billionaire. Musk has the right idea. Colonization of Mars.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Not orbit but it reached the Kármán line which many accept as defining the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and Space.
    Exactly. Referred to colloquially as, the edge of space.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I would not pay for such a trip, even if I had the money. I think Bezos is the least effectual space billionaire. Musk has the right idea. Colonization of Mars.
    The problem with Musk is, he is in league with the Chinese, and, he has pillaged US taxpayers, and made himself fabulously wealthy from it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    The problem with Musk is, he is in league with the Chinese, and, he has pillaged US taxpayers, and made himself fabulously wealthy from it.
    I wouldn't say Musk pillaged US taxpayers. NASA is using public/private ventures to push the space race along. It is a vital US interest to be first to colonize both the moon and Mars.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I wouldn't say Musk pillaged US taxpayers. NASA is using public/private ventures to push the space race along. It is a vital US interest to be first to colonize both the moon and Mars.
    He absolutely has pillaged US taxpayers, long before SpaceX.

    I noticed you left out anything about his relationship with the Chinese.
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    More on Jeff Bezos Is Ready to Cross a Cosmically Controversial Line, which goes into the controversy and the Branson/Bezos contest, and adds:

    Neither Blue Origin nor Virgin Galactic can put people into orbit around Earth, but the nature of orbits provides a useful way to understand this problem. Imagine you’re a satellite traveling in an elongated orbit around Earth, and your closest approach brings you less than 50 or so miles from the ground. At that point, the atmosphere will assert its presence and drag you down into a fiery plunge. But if your approach takes you above 50 miles, “you will likely survive ’til the next orbit and go around,” McDowell said. At this boundary—which I’m calling the McDowell line—gravitational forces become more important than atmospheric ones.
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