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To: KevinDavis

Why would you launch a spacecraft so far from the equator?


4 posted on 06/02/2005 5:43:23 PM PDT by greydog
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To: greydog; All

I don't know...


5 posted on 06/02/2005 5:45:59 PM PDT by KevinDavis (the space/future belongs to the eagles, the earth/past to the groundhogs)
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To: greydog

This is a suborbital craft, it goes straight up and straight down, the rotation of the Earth is irrelevant to it's trajectory.


8 posted on 06/02/2005 6:00:02 PM PDT by Brett66 (W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1)
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