What Is Microgravity? (Grades 5-8)

NASA STEM Team. (2025). What Is Microgravity? (Grades 5-8).

Type

Web resource

Intellectual base

Web

Year

2025

Link

https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/for-kids-and-students/what-is-microgravity-grades-5-8/

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Domain-specific

• Free Fall
  • They appear weightless because spacecraft and occupants accelerate together without a support force.

    This sourceDefines free fall as gravity-only acceleration for its audience, explains orbit as continuous falling, and warns that “zero gravity” is misleading.

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