Henry Spencer wrote:
Nothing "crash" or "square" about it -- a carefully-controlled entry at a
very shallow angle, using body lift to shape the path and hold the capsule
down in the atmosphere until it had lost enough speed that it wasn't going
to skip back out.


Which brings up the question: What would happen if it did skip off the
atmosphere?
Does it go into some odd orbit around Earth, or does it go clean out of
orbit and into solar orbit?

Pat

Pat