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spacedaily.com 04/07/2026

We think of astronauts as floating in zero gravity, but the International Space Station is still deep inside Earth’s pull, where gravity is nearly 90% as strong as it is on the ground. What looks like weightlessness is really the station and its crew falling around the planet at about 28,000 kilometres per hour.

We tend to picture astronauts drifting weightlessly in “zero gravity,” as if the pull of the Earth simply stops a few hundred kilometres up. It does not. The International Space Station orbits deep inside Earth’s gravity, at an altitude where the pul

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NASA still has no American-built way to reach the International Space Station except SpaceX's Dragon capsule — a dependency that has lasted years and shows no sign of ending soon

Since the Space Shuttle retired in 2011, NASA has rebuilt American crewed access to the International Space Station — but only through SpaceX's Crew Dragon. With Boeing's Starliner still grounded after its 2024 test flight, that single-supplier depen