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From: maurice@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Swimming in space
Message-ID: <478@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-May-85 15:36:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 15:36:40 1985
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Reply-To: maurice@nmtvax.UUCP (Roger M. Levasseur)
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>I wonder if a change in the ship's velocity would affect the hapless astronaut
>who is hanging in mid-air.


    Yes, it would. It has been noticed that objects that are floating in
mid air will start to drift, or change directions when the control rockets
fire to keep the shuttle pointed the right way, or just change directions.
If it does happen to an object, it should be the same for an astronaut.

Roger Levasseur