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DetlefK

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6. Then you can't send astronauts to space.

Reply to tirebiter (Reply #3)

Sat Jul 14, 2018, 03:57 AM

Jul 2018

The big problem is not overcoming the gravity. The problem is air-drag.

To counter the air-drag, you would have to shoot the capsule with such a high acceleration that the astronauts inside would get killed instantly by the G-forces.

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