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

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

Passengers experience weightlessness and see Earth from the perspective of astronauts — a blue marble floating in the void.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2024

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