Border Crossings is a cultural magazine edited and published in Winnipeg. A local, international magazine, it is now in its 35th year of continuous publication. Edited by Meeka Walsh, it investigates contemporary culture through a combination of articles, reviews, interviews and portfolios of photographs and drawings.
vertical ascent, that it shuts down, you re looking out the windows, looking at the zero gravity, the momentum is keeping you going higher and higher and higher until in this case about 56 miles, just short of where the 100 kilometer altitude for the x prize was. and because earth s gravity is strong and you haven t given it enough energy, earth s gravity starts pulling the spaceship back down, and one giant parabolic arc. in that time when you re out of the atmosphere, the feather mechanism, which is the back half of the vehicle, winging over, a beautiful innovation by bert butan, to implement what he calls a carefree reentry, meaning you take your hands off the wheel, the aerodynamics, shape of the wing, like a shuttlecock in badminton always