saltywalrusprkl t1_j1h7ksg wrote
Reply to comment by Vagabond_Grey in Russia may need to send a rescue mission to the International Space Station for 3 astronauts after a leak in their Soyuz capsule by A_Lazko
The redbull guy wasn’t moving at thousands of metres per second horizontally like the ISS is in orbit. The hard part about getting to (or back from) space isn’t getting to a high enough altitude, it’s accelerating sideways fast enough to reach the correct orbital velocity.
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