Remember the scene (or the couple of scenes) in The Right Stuff<\/i> when Yeager is pushing the limits (the scene at the very end of the film comes to mind): Yeager is flying up up up, through the blue, higher and higher, he starts to have trouble breathing, etc., and then – for a flicker of a moment – it is as though the blue of our atmosphere dissolves – but just for a second – and then there is the vast blackness of space.<\/p>\n
His plane can’t take it – he plummets into a tailspin – he ejects – there is a fiery mesh – and Yeager emerges from the smoke like a renegade hero. The credits roll. The End.<\/p>\n
Here’s my question about where space begins:<\/p>\n
Is it like that? When does “the blue” stop? Is it a definitive line? There must be some transformation that occurs, some visible transformation when you leave our atmosphere.<\/p>\n
Talk to me about when the blue stops and the black begins. (Sounds like a Neil Young song.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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