This is chapter 2 of the series "How to make your own spacecraft", Basic considerations: where do you want to go ?

This is the basic considerations about spaceflight and where you want to go and if you need rocket fuel also to brake, when you arrive.

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3b.html

At least one mistake crept in: Geostationary orbit is 36.000 km from earth, not 32.000 as I say in the video :-)

Palle