HOW TO GET MICROGRAVITY
James F. Jackson got weightlessness and microgravity slightly mixed up. The first you can get if falling free toward Earth, as he mentioned. What you get in parabolic flight and in orbiting Earth is microgravity but not because Earth's gravity is low. You get microgravity because Earth's gravity is...
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