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   Sylvia Else to David Spain   
   Re: Sub-Orbital Earth Transits   
   10 Dec 09 10:01:36   
   
   From: sylvia@not.at.this.address   
      
   David Spain wrote:   
   > If you can stay up for   
   > 3 hours above the atmosphere   
      
   And there's the rub. Doing that at less than orbital speed requires a   
   continuous expenditure of fuel. Lots of it.   
      
   Sylvia.   
      
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