With all due respect, that's an incredibly ignorant take. The only reason to go into space is to get into orbit. Putting something into orbit is only possible or useful or feasible once you are fully outside of the Earth's atmosphere. That's it. That happens to be about 220 MI hi, just a few hours drive if you could drive straight up. That's it. There's no reason to be at 250 miles or 300 miles. The further you go, the less useful your satellite is because it's farther and farther away from earth. You're just wasting fuel. It doesn't really matter if the moon is $238,000 MI away, once you get out of Earth's orbit, you can float for as long as you've got food and water in the capsule, basically. There's no such thing as distance in space, there's only duration in terms of floating to your next objective.

With all due respect, that's an incredibly ignorant take. The only reason to go into space is to get into orbit. Putting something into orbit is only possible or useful or feasible once you are fully outside of the Earth's atmosphere. That's it. That happens to be about 220 MI hi, just a few hours drive if you could drive straight up. That's it. There's no reason to be at 250 miles or 300 miles. The further you go, the less useful your satellite is because it's farther and farther away from earth. It doesn't really matter if the moon is $238,000 MI away, once you get out of Earth's orbit, you can float for as long as you've got food and water in the capsule, basically. There's no such thing as distance in space, there's only duration in terms of floating to your next objective.