Why can’t the space shuttle just go slow enough to not be heated up by friction with earths atmosphere on re-entry?
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The earth is spinning at like 1100 mph and traveling around the sun at like 66kmps. Our atmosphere isnt stationary it moves along with the planet. However if you were to go in a geosynchronous orbit and slowly descend gravity would catch up to you and either you would enter into a spin that goes faster and faster until your craft is ripped apart or you would be caught in a nose dive going soo steep that you would not be able to pull out of it without slamming nosefirst into the ground or have the wings ripped off off trying to pull out of a 90 degree approach
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