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What causes astronauts to appear to float in the space station?
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What causes astronauts to appear to float in the space station?

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They are in free fall. In a vacuum, gravity causes all objects to fall at the same rate, and since they all are falling together. The astronauts and other objects appear to float when compared with the spacecraft.
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