This is a really great link! > Getting to space is easy. It's not, like, something you could do in your car, but it's not a huge challenge. You could get a per

This is a really great link! > Getting to space is easy. It's not, like, something you could do in your car, but it's not a huge challenge. You could get a person to space with a small sounding rocket the size of a telephone pole. The X-15 aircraft reached space just by going fast and then steering up. > But getting to space is easy. The problem is staying there. [...] To avoid falling back into the atmosphere, you have to go sideways really, really fast. This image accompanies the above excerpt: https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/58/orbit_x15.png https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/58/orbit_x15.png