Friday, March 16, 2007
Because NASA Space Shuttles did not make any visit to Space Station for over two years after the end of Space Shuttle Columbia, its orbit has been progressively declining because of atmospheric drag. Even though the Space Station is repeatedly said to be in outer space, a less amount of the Earth's atmosphere yet exists at its usual orbit of about 172.6 nautical mile (319.6 kilometers) of perigee (closest point to the Earth in its orbit) and 187.3 nautical mile (346.9 kilometers) of apogee (farthest point).
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