• Question: What does it feel like on a rocket ship

    Asked by anon-245582 to Samantha, Lori-Ann on 19 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Samantha Faircloth

      Samantha Faircloth answered on 19 Mar 2020:

      Hello Leo! What a great question! I haven’t been on a rocket ship but it would be so cool! Have you ever been on a rollercoaster? I would imagine that it might feel quite a lot like that as you experience ‘G-force’. A rocket would be going much faster so only really physically fit astronauts get to go in them. Perhaps you should become an astronaut and let me know what it’s like! : -)

    • Photo: Lori-Ann Foley

      Lori-Ann Foley answered on 19 Mar 2020:

      I haven’t been on one to say for sure 😀 but if you were travelling from Earth to the space station there would be a lot of thrust and pressure when you launched but once you got to orbit you would be floating as the gravity from Earth would be so much less. And if you were travelling between planets, when the space ship fired its engines to get you on your way, then fired them at the other end to stop the ship, there would be a lot of pressure (called g force). In between, when the ship was not firing its engines, there would be no pressure and you would float.

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