The International Space Station (ISS) a symbol of human achievement and cooperation in space exploration, which orbits earth in low earth orbit. It is developed by the collaboration of five space agencies, NASA (USA), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada) . Credits: NASA Its purpose is to perform experiments in microgravity and space. ISS is the largest structure humans put into space. It orbits 16 times around the Earth in one day, orbiting the Earth in 90 min with a velocity of approximately 8 Km/sec. Let’s discuss the title of the blog now. Well ISS is not literally falling, not until 2030 at least. ISS flies at an altitude that ranges from 370 Km to 460 km, which seems quite far from Earth but when you compare it relative to the distance between Earth and the moon it does not seem that high. If you calculate the acceleration due to gravity (g) at this altitude it comes out to be 8.75 m/s 2 (for reference g at earth’s surface is 9.81 m...
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