If you take a trip to the edge of space, 110 km. up, just beyond the legally-defined boundary of space, which is 100 km., so you're a space traveller, the craft you'll fly in, run by Sir Richard Branson's company, is lifted to a higher altitude than ordinary airliners fly by a very expensive custom built aircraft before they turn on the juice. 55000 feet is 19 Km ; a small fraction of the altitude you need. Why not just use the spacecraft and dispense with the other vehicle? You'd only need to carry about 20% more fuel. It would be much cheaper, surely?
2007-10-21
19:56:02
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