> Enter the atmosphere slowly....
There is always the unspoken assumption that you're in planetary orbit. That does not have to be true. Say the shuttle is moving on a slightly eccentric orbit around the sun, timed to coincide with earth orbit at just about zero relative velocity. Earth gravity will of course affect the shuttle (and vice versa, but that's astronomically small). _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
