Thread: Space Cadets
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Old 10-12-2005, 01:06   #89
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Re: Space Cadets

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Originally Posted by Halcyon
...As for the weightlessness issue, they have been told some kind of nonsense about them reaching pre-orbit or sub orbit or something like that where gravity will not be a problem...
They were told that they would only be orbiting in "near space" (100km), so they wouldn't feel the effects of weightlessness.

I take it, that the first ones they weeded out, were the ones who had ever had a physics lesson at school then!
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