From: CALYK@aol.com
Date: Sat Aug 08 1998 - 12:29:23 MDT
In a message dated 98-08-08 05:59:00 EDT, you write:
<< This is also extremely basic stuff.
The spacecraft is already "just kinda" in free fall.
A ballistic object moving sideways at a speed at or above five miles
a second never hits the earth because the Earth's surface "falls" at at
least the same rate the object does (no fair pointing the object so it
hits). >>
Im sorry I dont understand what you're saying. If you go 6 miles above sea
level, and drop a ball, its not going to burn up on its way down. Why not
slow the ballistic object down before entering the atmosphere? Thats what I
asked initially.
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