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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by dredmorbius on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:26PM (#27896596)
Ballistic free path is 45 minutes. A single LEO is 90 minutes, no place on Earth is more than a half-orbit distant.

A ballistic point-to-point tragectory is an orbit which intersects the surface.

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