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Do the patches they use (or are it pills) help a lot against space sickness?
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I would insist the mission include an attempt to establish a new record for highest altitude skydive. The current record is from just over 100,000 feet, set quite a while back by a guy named Kittel (sp?). He released from a weather balloon and achieved a maximum freefall speed of over 700 MPH.

My only concern would be, what if you went too high and instead of going into a nice accelerating freefall, went into a relatively slowly decaying orbit for a few years?

How high could you go and still expect to fall back quickly. By quickly I mean reach terra firma within a few minutes?
If you've got no orbital speed yourself, you could go quite high.
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wait.....


haven't you guys all forgotten about the deadly radiation of the Van Allen Belt?
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wait.....


haven't you guys all forgotten about the deadly radiation of the Van Allen Belt?
Pffff Van Halen is so out [-( [-(

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Heck yeah!

Well, if the rest of the crew was friendly and competent...

(A broadband connection to Earth, via laser linkup or something, would sweeten the deal... But hey, you can't have everything.)
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Just make sure that the passageway to the cockpit has been fully sealed and that everyone has been xrayed.


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nicolas quote: [If you've got no orbital speed yourself, you could go quite high.]

Ok, so what does that exactly mean. I'll probably use the wrong terms, but:

As long as I just go "up" but don't make any lateral changes? So if I was watching the Earth rotate unde me, and not rotating with it, I could go to maybe 40 or 50 miles and still fall "down" as soon as I released from my means of lift?[/quote]
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Yeah, I'd go. I said that the same day Challenger exploded and again when Columbia broke up. I've spent my whole life waiting to go to space. I work 'in space' in a way, so it would be worth the hardships (motion sickness, training, etc.). That's just the way it is.
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