Weight and Weightlessness

Name/Title

Weight and Weightlessness

Entry/Object ID

2019.1.1.219

Description

An astronaut floats in his spaceship; cameras, tools, and food drift past him. We say that he is weightless, but what does this mean? And how dos it happen that everything in a spaceship, no matter how heavy it is on earth, has no weight in space?

Acquisition

Accession

2019.1

Source or Donor

Top Fun Aviation Museum

Acquisition Method

Gift

Book Details

Author

Branley, Franklyn M

Date Published

1971