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TylerE on Oct 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amateur rocket launch reaches 121,000 feet

Pretty impressive, but that ain't space.

jgrahamc on Oct 20, 2011 | [–]

Agreed. It's in the stratosphere and might be called 'near space', but it's not above the Karman line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kármán_line

iwwr on Oct 20, 2011 | [–]

It's above more than 99% of the atmosphere, very nearly space.

The pressure is around the same you'd find on Mars (on the ground), incidentally.

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