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Blue Origin Reaches Space, Lands Intact
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Also, Elon Musk cites XKCD to differentiate space and orbit.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/24/technolo...t-landing/
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
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Quote: XKCD;
The interval between the start and the end of I'm Gonna Be is 3 minutes and 30 seconds,[10] and the ISS is moving is 7.66 km/s.
This means that if an astronaut on the ISS listens to I'm Gonna Be, in the time between the first beat of the song and the final lines ...
[Image: orbit_1000.png]
... they will have traveled just about exactly 1,000 miles.
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