If you could drive a car straight up into the sky at highway speed, you would reach the edge of outer space in under an hour — the only thing protecting every living creature on Earth from the lethal vacuum is a layer of air thinner, relative to the planet, than the s - Space Daily
Get in a car. Point it at the sky. Drive at the speed limit. You would reach the official boundary of outer space — the line at which Earth’s atmosphere thins to the point where conventional aircraft can no longer generate enough lift to fly, and at which orb…
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