We all know the pictures of the astronauts on the ISS floating around. We also suspect that a lack of gravity is bad for the body as the muscles go weak and such.

Why don’t spaceships just rotate to cause the effect of artificial gravity through centrifugal forces?

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    19 hours ago

    ISS has thrusters that push it up/ forward from time to time. It’s practically permanently falling on / around earth, to create the lack of gravity. Up there gravity is nearly pulling as strong as here