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Zero gravity is not a question of height or altitude, its a question about motion.

You can experience something close to zero G on a roller coaster, air plane, falling elevator and sky diving. All of these involve MOTION. Just as the space station, or space ship is falling around a planet (called orbit) it is the falling, not the distance above the planet that creates zero gravity.

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