Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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How do you propose to slow the shuttle down from orbital velocity?


The shuttle does slow from orbital velocity to re-enter.

Yeah, by a tiny fraction of it's total horizontal velocity.

Then there is that inconvenient energy of position which gets
converted to energy of motion as it falls back to Earth.

--
Jim Pennino

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