If you want to put something into orbit, you launch eastwards and from a point as close to the equator as you can. This is not an advanteous tragectory for an orbital launch.
Just sayin’.
4 posted on 04/08/2012 10:29:04 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
(Queeg Olbermann: Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them.)