Gravity Never Left the Space Station
Weightlessness is gravity's handiwork. Aboard the International Space Station, floating signals not gravity's disappearance but its uninterrupted action: the station, its crew and every unsecured object are falling together around Earth. The floor falls too. At roughly 400 kilometers above the surface, gravitational acceleration remains about 89 percent of its ground-level value, close to the fami...More
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