why when the international space station is only 250miles away does it take at least 4 hours to get there?

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I’m going to be very disappointed if the rockets top out at 65mph.

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I mean they could get there a lot quicker if they wanted to crash into it at incredible velocity.

Imagine a race car going around a round track at 100mph. You are in the middle of the track. You could just run straight at the car but that would be bad. To catch it softly you would need to start driving around the track behind it slowly catching up.

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