Things You Thought You Knew – Billionaires in Space
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Are You Weightless in Space?
The more I read about the smartest man in the world ever. That's a big statement. There were a lot of scenes where, okay, it took the astronauts three days to get to the moon because what they do is not,. They get to five miles per second going in orbit around the earth. Now they want to escape the earth. So that's what an orbit is and that's why you are weightless in space. And add Astra, they're always firing their rock. As long as your rockets are burning, you will feel that acceleration. It is as though you created gravity creates like a source of gravity.
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