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To: average joe who wrote (13793)2/20/2011 12:51:26 AM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 
Two niggles:
The space station is in low earth orbit, or LEO.

"Space" is most commonly defined as anything more than 100km from the earth's surface. The station orbits at about 300km on average; it varies due to exospheric drag and irregular reorbit burns. Do you use a different criterion?