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title: "2 Traveling Orbit Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“Currently where you are is on a huge globe with a relatively thin crust of stone, containing fire in its bowels, rotating on its own slightly tilted axis at 1,000 miles per hour in an easterly direction while simultaneously traveling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-russell/currently-where-you-are-is-on-a-huge-globe-with-a-relatively-thin/)

[Stephen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-russell/)

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> [The next 15 years will see thousands of people leave the atmosphere on suborbital flights. My company's SS2 system might fly 100,000 people by 2024. If it is shown to be highly profitable, perhaps we will see 20,000 people traveling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burt-rutan/the-next-15-years-will-see-thousands-of-people-leave-the-atmosphere/)

[Burt Rutan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burt-rutan/)

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