Re: Cheap Space Flight

Chris L Peterson wrote:

Not by much. It takes almost as much energy to escape Earth's gravity
from low Earth orbit as it does from the ground. Floating up to the edge
of space before launching doesn't provide all that much benefit.

Chris:

I didn't think you were one of the nutters here until this post.

Better run some numbers on that. Pay attention to the square of the distance term.
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