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Is gravity used in space travel?

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If you mean do any manned spacecraft use artificial gravity, the answer is, not so far. But, in the future, large spacecraft may create artificial gravity by rotating them.

To conserve fuel, the gravity of the moon/planets is used to pull spacecraft toward them. And of course the gravity of earth is used to hold/pull on spacecraft so they orbit (circle) around it instead of flying off into space.

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Is spaceship on Earth? (yes) Technically, there is gravity "everywhere." The force of gravity can be canceled by the negative centripetal force.

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