• Question: If you fell off something in space would you keep falling or floating till death?

    Asked by puma520sync on 3 Mar 2025. This question was also asked by read1yegg.
    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 3 Mar 2025:

      If you fell off a space ship then you would continue to travel in the same direction as the space ship unless you hit sometime or fall into the gravitational pull of a star or planet.

    • Photo: Kirsty Lindsay

      Kirsty Lindsay answered on 10 Mar 2025:

      Yes.
      Newton’s first law states a body in motion will stay in motion (in straight line, in the same direction) unless another force makes it change. So, if you fell off into space, you would keep falling in that direction unless you could change it with, say, a jet pack. In fact astronauts could use jet packs to rescue themselves on Space Shuttle using a system called SAFER!

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