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As astronauts take off in a rocket moving away from earth how does their mass and or weight change

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As you travel away from the Earth's surface, your mass stays the same but your weight reduces as gravitational pull decreases. For example, an astronaut orbiting the Earth and floating weightlessly in the cabin still has the same mass.

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