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Letter: Weightlessness problem could be easily solved

Published 19 July 2023

From Eric Kvaalen, Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

I don’t understand why there is so much worry about weightlessness during space travel. Getting to the moon takes just a few days, and for longer trips there is a solution. capsules together with a tether 2 kilometres long and set the whole turning, like a gaucho’s bolas, at a rate of one revolution per minute. This way, each capsule experiences 1 g of artificial gravity (8 July, p 21).

Issue no. 3448 published 22 July 2023

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