NASA Runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
To escape the earth one must travel 33 times the speed of sound. Mach 33.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts132/multimedia/gallery/Touchdown.html
This ties to the 33 as the number of transcendence of the material world to enter the celestial/ heavens/ outer space.
"On the surface of the Earth, the escape velocity is about 11.2 km/s, which is approximately 33 times the speed of sound (Mach 33) and several times the muzzle velocity of a rifle bullet (up to 1.7 km/s)." —Wiki
The only problem is that escape velocity ONLY applies to an unpropelled vehicle, like a cannon that shoots a vehicle, NOT ROCKETS! BTW: In HG Wells' Shape of Things to Come huge cannon is used for the moon shot, not rockets.
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