Which of the following best explains why astronauts experience weightlessness while orbiting the earth?(a) The spaceship is traveling at a constant velocity. , (b) The centripetal force on the astronaut is zero. , (c) The force of gravity is very small because the astronaut is far away from the planet. , (d) The spaceship is in free fall. , (e) The gravitational pull from the sun cancels out the gravitational pull from the earth. :

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Which of the following best explains why astronauts experience weightlessness while orbiting the earth?

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