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I don’t think there’s a hard set boundary (I don’t remember that the ‘67 OST defines one).

The FAI treats the Karman line as the limit between atmospheric and space flight.

USAF uses a lower 50 miles threshold (80km), NASA uses that for uniformity since 2005.




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