If you wish to flying out of the Earth Surface, you lay down, facing East, Down.

Not face up, in case....you become blind, you close your eyes.

Only Earth has the gravity.

Your basketball demo has no gravity. 

You go to equator to do that.....

East Coastline of America, its not a straight line up to down. You can just see it directly from the map. Meaning your actual travel time has to wait on the North, if you are on the same exactly Time Zone to When the exactly mins or second to that Sunrise....

How the Earth rotate to enter the Sun phase, that interface. 

The Earth rotate towards East. Its a curved surface, meaning that is counter clockwise. Towards East -->

East means -->

Vectors are a quantative measurement of a number in physics to describe you mostly a coordinate. In that quandrain of the Universe......Its darkness, you cannot see the vectors, ever.