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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by jcreedon on Friday October 31, 2014 @06:21PM (#8541386)
There is also at least an order of magnitude between their maximum altitudes.
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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by wolf550e on Saturday November 01, 2014 @03:25AM (#8542419)
The altitude is not important.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

SpaceShipTwo is meant to get to zero velocity at ~105km up. Soyuz gets to 17,450 mph at 200km up (and then catches up to the station at 400km up). Only the speed sideways is important, and there is more than one order of magnitude difference.

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