the state or condition in which there is no apparent force of gravity acting on a body, either because the force is locally weak, or because both the body and its surroundings are freely and equally accelerating under the force
Starting at the zero-gravity of earth’s core, accumulative acceleration is easily built up in a four-thousand-mile tube.
Everyone has an initial terror of weightlessness when they hit zero gravity. Most can adapt to it after a while if it’s just a physical problem.
Bergitta really knew how to handle herself in zero gravity, with unabrupt graceful movements like a dancer in a slow-motion solly.
A space-station assembly supervisor, accustomed to working under zero gravity, had forgotten that though he was in space he was not in orbit—and a lifetime’s experience had betrayed him.
Day after day, in zero gravity, there are mock battles.
About a decade ago, discussion of space-station experiments shifted terminology from ‘zero-gravity’ to ‘microgravity.’
Mission to Mars…. Brian De Palma’s punishingly dull 2000 movie gave an accurate depiction of the process of conducting repairs in zero gravity, but failed to get our pulses racing.
antedating 1938
1938 J. Binder 'If Science Reached The Earth's Core'
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