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Quiz 59: The floating astronaut
Easy question: why astronauts float inside space stations?

Well well well.

Many of you wrote "no gravity". Actually it is not true, because in the space stations (at only 408Km from earth surface), the gravity is still very high (90% of the one at ground level).

So, why do they float? Because both astronauts and space stations are orbiting around the earth in "free fall"!

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Solution They are in free fall

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