When you go over a harsh speed bump or go downwards on a roller coaster, you experience this brief feeling of your internals going up as your body comes down. Do astronauts feel a similar sensation in 0G/micro-gravity environments because your internals are suspended relative to the rest of your body? Would I experience 0G (breifly) if I were to be stuck in an elevator if the cable snapped?
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> Would I experience 0G (breifly) if I were to be stuck in an elevator if the cable snapped?
Well, aside from the fact that modern elevators have emergency brakes, yes. In Bremen, Germany is a [122m drop tower](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallturm_Bremen) that is used to carry out microgravity experiments on Earth.
This isn’t just similar but exactly the same. Astronauts in orbit are not in fact in zero gravity – the gravitational field strength on the ISS is only about 10% weaker than it is at Earth’s surface – but the astronauts and their spacecraft are constantly in freefall.
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