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Free fall explains why astronauts have no mass while orbiting Earth?
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∙ 14y ago
Not quite. It explains why they have no weight. But their mass doesn't change.
It's the same on earth, on the moon, and everywhere in between.
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They communicated by radio.
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Does gravity pull on astronauts while in orbit around earth?
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