31 Space or Orbit?
Teddynews 2023-31
…or: when the pitchforks are coming, I got to go
Das Resümee vorweg:
Ein Orbitalflug oder orbitaler Raumflug ist der Flug eines Raumflugkörpers in einer Umlaufbahn („Orbit“) um einen Himmelskörper. Orbitalflüge sind zu unterscheiden von Suborbitalflügen, die zwar den Weltraum erreichen, aber zu langsam sind, um eine Umlaufbahn zu erreichen.
Was sagt Neil deGrasse Tyson dazu:
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has expressed doubts about whether billionaire Richard Branson really flew into space and posed several questions over its technicality. “First of all, it was suborbital. Nasa did it 60 years ago with Alan Shepard, took off from Cape Canaveral and landed in the ocean,” deGrasse Tyson said in an interview with CNN. "If you don't go fast enough to reach orbit you will fall and return to Earth," he added.
The astrophysicist explained the orbit of the International Space Station and that of a spacecraft orbit would be 1cm from the scale model and the moon would be more than 10 metres away. However, the border that Richard Branson reached is less than 2 millimetres from the surface, he said.
“It's okay if you want to call it 'space,' because average humans haven't gotten there before and it's a first for you. That's why it takes eight minutes to get into orbit and three days to reach the moon," he told CNN. ". That is actually space travel. So I don't see it as 'oh, let's go into space'. No. What you are going to have is a nice view of the Earth," he added.
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