On Sun, 21 Nov 2021 13:19:50 GMT, a322x1n <void@void.void> wrote:
>Excellent points!

If you keep repeating the mantra "We went to the Moon" for a long
enough time, it makes it become true. Like magic, it's bewitching.

x-Moon's mean geocentric distance 238,856 miles(n.t.s.)-x
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x-----Geostationary orbit ~22,300 miles altitude--------x
x-----Mid-altitude orbit ~12,500 miles altitude---------x
x-----Low-altitude orbit below ~1200 miles altitude-----x
x-----JPL/NASA Space Shuttle orbit ~300 miles altitude--x
x-----Intl. Space Station orbit ~220 miles altitude-----x
x-----Earth's mean sea level -0- miles altitude---------x

Arthur Charles Clarke was born to Charles Wright & Mary Nora
Willis-Clarke on Sunday 16 December 1917 at 13 Blenheim Road
(3W28:36,51N12:23) Minehead TA24 5PZ, Somersetshire, England.
(N. McAleer's biography "on the morning of December 16 1917")

Stanley Kubrick was born to Jacob Leonard & Sadie Gertrude Perveler-
Kubrick at Society for the Lying-In Hospital 305 2nd Ave. (73W59:01,
40N44:05) Manhattan New York, NY, on Thursday July 26, 1928 (AA/BR).