When they put on their rockets, there's acceleration inside the rocket. And when it's accelerating, there is an effective field of gravity in the ship. The higher that acceleration is, the higher that gravity will feel. If you want to get to the moon in a few hours, everybody's sitting in the chair, feeling this gravity. That's why balloons, if you're floating, but you still have a,. if you put a scale under your feet, you're going to still weigh as much as you do on Earth. It's not in free fall. Right.
Does being in space mean there is no gravity? What does noon have to do with the Artemis Mission? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice break down weightlessness, planetary alignments, and what is going on on the south pole of the moon.
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