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Towards earth. so that, everyone in orbit at all times is weightless. whereas, on these suborbital flights, they are only weightless from the time from when they shut off their rockets, until they fall far enough for the atmosphere to sta start slowing them down. then, they begin to feel sort of g-forces of that and it s only a couple of minutes. so, these are levels of space travel, yes. and a point i made on twitter in the last couple of days is, if you take a schoolroom globe of the earth and ask where s mars? it s a mile away. where is the moon? 30 feet away. where is the international space station? it s orbiting three-eighths of an inch above the surface. where is bezos and branson? um, they are just less than an eighth of an inch above the surface of that globe. so, what matters here is no one is doing what they re doing. so i don t have a problem with it. ....

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