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  • weightlessness
    Condition experienced by the occupants of a spacecraft in which the sensation of weight is cancelled. A body is in weightless conditions when its motion is subjected to gravity only. Contrary to popular belief, weightlessness is not due to the absence of gravity, but rather to the fact that there is nothing acting against it.
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