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There is no gravity in the orbiting spac...

There is no gravity in the orbiting space station around the Earth . So the astronauts feel weightlessness .

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False.
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There is a gravity in the orbiting space station around the earth. Since space station and astronauts have equal acceleration. Both the astronauts and space station are in the state of weightlessness.
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