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To: KevinDavis

Shouldn't the Texans try to locate their spaceport closer to the equator, so near Brownsville?


4 posted on 07/24/2006 7:07:28 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( http://www.answersingenesis.org)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Shouldn't the Texans try to locate their spaceport closer to the equator, so near Brownsville?

I suppose if these are only suborbital tourist flights, that it would not be necessary to use the earths rotation to achieve the orbital velocity of approx. 17,000mph.

5 posted on 07/25/2006 3:49:36 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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Too many people and towns. Out near Van Horn where Bezos has his operation, there is a helluva lot of wide open country.


6 posted on 07/25/2006 4:57:20 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer
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