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No, it doesn't feel fast. Humans can sense acceleration, but the only way to sense speed is by watching something ...

It feels awesome It's a bit like flying—you are simply floating around, using solid objects to help you navigate or push off of to gain speed and so forth. It is very exciting and you feel happy and free Some people's bodies are a little more sensitive to the feeling of weightlessness and may feel a bit funny or nauseous, but it varies ...

It feels great to float. Yes, you float the entire time you are in orbit, even in your sleeping bunk. It never is annoying except when you want to find some piece of equipment that you thought you had placed next to you, only to find out that it has floated away. ---- Answer provided by Byron Lichtenberg, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question ...

It feels awesome. You can float and do flips and rolls, and just stay in one place ...

... often, you would feel weightless. In orbit, gravity still acts on you almost as strongly as it does on Earth but you are moving along with your surroundings so that it seems that you are weightless. This is called apparent weightlessness and it is responsible for ... is pulling on the Shuttle astronauts with very nearly the same force that it does on the Earth's surface. It's the orbital motion, and the fact that the astronauts and Shuttle ...

Well, basically, you feel free. There is nothing to hold you to the ground. You could have drawers on ... is a little different in terms of the time it takes to adjust to weightlessness. I would imagine that sometimes the astronauts feel annoyed that they have to be strapped in to ...

... , there is an increase of sound caused by the air rushing by the orbiter, a feeling of heaviness caused by the onset of gforces, an awareness that we are descending, and ... cases, members of the crew have never experienced these feelings and sights before. Training in preparation for the mission is excellent, but it does not replicate accurately the ascent, orbit and re-entry ...

... the Space Shuttle cabin or inside the ISS when they are in space. It is similar to the feeling we would have on a free fall ride on a roller coaster in ...

... smell different, and will likely have a gunpowder tinge to it. There is nothing to hear in vacuum, though you'd feel the rare moonquake through the ground. Looking out across the ... 't right, the horizon's too close, and everything has a rounded, eroded look to it. ---- Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question ...

... 2 g's, and then build to 3 g's during the end. Obviously, you feel heavy if you weigh three times your normal weight. Nonetheless, this pressure doesn't hurt ...

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