If you're in space and your engines are shut off, you are falling towards whatever is pulling you wherever it is. You will be weightless as long as you are coasting. If you don't make it to that first Lagrange point, you will fall back to earth. So there are five of them and so we don't have to get into that just now. But all I'm saying is if you are coasted, then you are falling away from Earth. No matter what.
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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