From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   "J.B. Wood"  writes:   
   >1.  A human-crewed spacecraft of the future comes upon and assumes orbit   
   >around an earth-sized, "goldilocks zone" planet.   
      
     In my previous post I wrote:   
      
   |A spaceship in orbit usually has a hughe velocity normal to the surface.   
      
     Please read this as:   
      
   |A spaceship in orbit usually has a hughe velocity /tangential/ to the   
   |surface of the planet.   
      
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