Well, this question has been puzzling me for kinda long time, many people believe that orbiting astronauts feel weightless because they are "beyond the pull of Earth's gravity"...How far from the Earth would a spacecraft have to travel to be truly beyond the Earth's gravitational influence? If a spacecraft were really unaffected by Earth's gravity would it remain n orbit? If so, what is the real reason for weightlessness in orbit?
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