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Any time a person falls, they experience reduced gravity for a short time.

If they fall a greater distance, the more likely they will experience something close to zero G.

Sky diving, riding a roller coaster/ amusement park ride with a free fall component can get close to zero g. If you've been in a plane that hit turbulence and dropped quite a ways, you may have experienced zero gravity.

Point is, zero is experienced during free fall, which is exactly what the astronauts are doing when they are in orbit.

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