weightlessness

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She spent more than 320 days in space on her last mission, but she said the sensation of weightlessness had never lingered so long.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

There is plenty of evidence that that foods can be successfully grown from cells on Earth, but can the process be repeated in the weightlessness and higher radiation of space?

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2025

Once they reach space, they’ll be able to float around the rocket, experiencing weightlessness and looking out the windows at the universe and Earth below for about four minutes before coming back down.

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

He trained in how to operate under conditions of what we then called weightlessness, or zero gravity—when a person floats around in the air.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson