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You have no doubt seen pictures of the astronauts floating around inside a space shuttle...

You have no doubt seen pictures of the astronauts floating around inside a space shuttle as it orbits some 300 kilometers above Earth’s surface. Would the force of gravity Earth exerts on an astronaut be the same as, a little less than, or much less than the force that the astronaut would experience on Earth’s surface? Why?

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