weightlessness

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Extended weightlessness generally wreaks havoc on the human body, often disrupting the space traveler’s heartbeat, balance and hormone levels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

They will work in a small cabin in weightlessness.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

The Elle article describes the role of Monday’s Blue Origin crew—on a rocket that flies itself—as “experiencing weightlessness and looking out the windows.”

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2025

The thick packet contained an exchange of more than 20 letters, but for me it had a wonderful weightlessness.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2025

It was the bird’s lightness, its near weightlessness, that got me.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx