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Re:NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarte... by mavhc on Friday October 11, 2019 @12:42PM (#21226024)
Wasn't 1776 to 1961 longer?
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Re:NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarte... by wcarron on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:36PM (#21228213)
Are you really being serious right now? Please, inform all of us how space travel was possible in 1776. At best, one could make the argument that the invention of the V2 rocket was the first time space travel was possible.

But, 194X to 1961 is a shorter time frame than 196X -> 2019.

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Re:NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarte... by mavhc on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:50PM (#21228331)
Not at all. Although 1783 was the first hydrogen balloon. Depends how you define space travel I guess. 1930s people got to 20km high
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Re:NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarte... by Strom on Saturday October 12, 2019 @01:52PM (#21234916)
20km seems awfully low. The Kármán line at 100km [1] is what most would use. Alternatively 80km is also used.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line

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