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Things You Thought You Knew – Where the Sun Don’t Shine

StarTalk Radio

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The Importance of Navigation in Space

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.

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