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THE KÁRMÁN LINE
The Kármán line is a boundary 62 miles (100 kilometers) above mean sea level that is the border between the end of the Earth’s atmosphere and the beginning of outer space.
It was named after a Hungarian physicist Theodore von Kármán. The boundary stemmed from his attempt to determine the maximum altitude an airplane can fly and still achieve lift. In the 1960s, the FAI (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) the world’s governing body for tracking the standards and records in astronautics adopted the definition that space begins at 100 km or 62 miles.
LIFE BEYOND THE KÁRMÁN LINE - OUTER SPACE
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