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To: iowamark

OK, then I guess I’ve missed something. Are the ashes orbiting earth but can no longer be tracked, or did the orbit decay?


23 posted on 05/13/2007 3:30:40 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack
The rocket never got anywhere near orbit. It was never supposed to. These "space tours" are just a short hop designed to get up to about 70 miles altitude and back. A very, very quick thrill. From Wikipedia:

More affordable suborbital space tourism is viewed as a money-making proposition by several other companies, including Space Adventures, Virgin Galactic, Starchaser, Blue Origin, Armadillo Aerospace, XCOR Aerospace, Rocketplane Limited, the European "Project Enterprise", and others. Most are proposing vehicles that make suborbital flights peaking at an altitude of 100-160 kilometres. Passengers would experience three to six minutes of weightlessness, a view of a twinkle-free starfield, and a vista of the curved Earth below. Projected costs are expected to be about $200,000 per passenger.

25 posted on 05/13/2007 8:02:31 PM PDT by iowamark (What if the Right said Fred?)
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