MICROGRAVITY FURTHER DEFINED

Contrary to James F. Jackson's letter (AW&ST Oct. 4, p. 9), it is correct to identify weightlessness with 0g and near-0g with a name like microgravity. Such conditions include being in parabolic flight, in a spacecraft falling directly toward Earth from near outer space, in the International Space...

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