Weightlessness

  • (noun): The property of being comparatively small in weight.
    Synonyms: lightness

Some articles on weightlessness:

Extra-vehicular Activity - Development History
... They misrepresented to the press how difficult Leonov found it to work in weightlessness, and concealed the problems encountered until after the end of the Cold War ... in scuba diving inspired the use of underwater EVA training to simulate weightlessness, which has been used ever since to allow astronauts to practice techniques of avoiding wasted muscle energy ... They found that activities in weightlessness required about 2 1/2 times the duration as on Earth because many astronauts suffered spacesickness early in their flights ...
Skylab - Operational History - Orbital Operations
... The first crew enjoyed taking a shower once a week, but found drying themselves in weightlessness and vacuuming excess water difficult later crews usually cleaned themselves ... Astronauts also found that bending over in weightlessness to put on socks or tie shoelaces strained their stomach muscles ... food—although greatly improved from Apollo—was bland and repetitive, and weightlessness caused utensils, food containers, and bits of food to float away ...
Mir - Station Structure - Microgravity
... of the station offered a perceived sensation of weightlessness, the onboard environment was not one of weightlessness or zero gravity ... This state of perceived weightlessness was not perfect, however, being disturbed by five separate effects The drag resulting from the residual atmosphere, Vibratory acceleration ...
Outer Space - Environment - Effect On Human Bodies
... See also Space exposure and Weightlessness Sudden exposure to very low pressure, such as during a rapid decompression, could cause pulmonary barotrauma—a rupture of ... for life in Earth gravity, exposure to weightlessness has been shown to have deleterious effects on the health ... Longer term exposure to weightlessness results in muscle atrophy and deterioration of the skeleton, or spaceflight osteopenia ...