MICROGRAVITY: DO WE HAVE THE ANSWER?

Readers Peter Young and Werner Cyrmon attempted to clarify the situation described as microgravity in their letters (AW&ST Nov. 1, p. 9). Unfortunately, they only added to the confusion. The terms weightlessness, 0g and microgravity are all wrong. The net force on any object in low-Earth orbit is...

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