On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 14:27:27 -0800, a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> wrote:
>astronauts on the moon
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).