Labels:text | screenshot OCR: WEIGHTLESSNESS LIVING IN SPACE IN ORBIT, as soon as the main engines are turned WEIGHTLESS IN SPACE off, astronauts experience a state of apparent When in orbit, a spacecraft's weightlessness. On Earth, we are aware of our - and its occupants' - fall weight because the downward pull of gravity on toward the Earth and its our bodies is blocked by an upward push from forward motion combine to produce a curved whatever we are standing on. In space both the orbital path. spacecraft and its occupants are continuously falling toward the Earth under the influence of gravity. With nothing to block their fall, astronauts simply float around inside the spacecraft. In orbit, astronauts are in free fall toward the During take off, Earth and feel acceleration weightless causes astronauts to feel heavie ...
