How to Use microgravity in a Sentence

microgravity

noun

• The creators learned how to eat in space, how to function in microgravity and even put on a space suit, the release adds.
  — Alex Stuckey, Houston Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2017
• In that time, astronauts have walked on the moon and even endured more than a year in microgravity.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2017
• Before the bubbly flows, customers will have three days of training to prepare for the G-forces and learn how to move in microgravity.
  — Justin Bachmanbloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• Once there, or at about 55.45 miles above the surface of the planet, the plane performed a slow backflip in microgravity, which was captured in video shared on YouTube.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 24 May 2021
• The travelers will ride to the edge of space, briefly hang suspended in microgravity, and then return back to Earth, parachuting down above the Texas desert.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Oct. 2021
• This is where the microgravity of low Earth orbit comes into play.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 June 2020
• Rubio has spent nearly 350 days on board the space station and is soon set to break the record for the longest time a US astronaut has spent in microgravity.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 3 Sep. 2023
• To use the treadmill, astronauts hooked a rubber band over their shoulders to stay on the machine and jog in microgravity.
  — Echo Huang, Quartz, 18 July 2019
• Her crewmates said that she's been doing flips a lot while in microgravity.
  — Amy Thompson, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2021
• Due to microgravity, crews at the station can lose some of their sense of taste and smell and may prefer spicier or seasoned foods, according to Romeyn.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 19 July 2021
• Back in 1988, bull sperm was put into sounding rockets and blasted into the air to see how the sperm would react in microgravity.
  — Elly Belle, Teen Vogue, 17 July 2018
• It’s not like five minutes, a little moment of microgravity, and it’s over.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 18 Sep. 2021
• Inside one of the spaceships, a loose pen floats in microgravity, its movements seamless.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
• The firm is now processing the data from the experiment, comparing the cells grown in microgravity to those grown on earth.
  — Shoshanna Solomon, Fortune, 13 June 2022
• The microgravity and ground control seeds will be inspected to see the ones that germinated and the ones that didn’t germinate.
  — Nisa Khan, Detroit Free Press, 5 Dec. 2020
• In a microgravity environment, such as that of the International Space Station, there isn’t as much of a need for a suit to bend at the waist and have mobile legs.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 29 July 2019
• Further, a 30-day mission to Mars means astronauts will need to spend months in microgravity.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 May 2022
• Another set of samples didn’t spin, so those bacteria worked on their basalt slices in the ISS’s microgravity.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2020
• In addition to trips to the edge of space, people with deep pockets may soon be able to pay for orbital experiences and longer stays in microgravity.
  — NBC News, 13 Oct. 2021
• Setting up the station for science hasn’t been easy, as even the most basic lab equipment had to be tested and often redesigned to work in microgravity.
  — National Geographic, 28 Oct. 2020
• It’s intended to limit bone and muscle loss in microgravity—something that might be used one day on long voyages to Mars.
  — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 22 May 2023
• The successful result prompted the researchers to ponder the next big challenge: a test drive in microgravity.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2021
• After three years of tests, the microgravity-proof contraption is ready to be deployed on missions.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2021
• The patterns should be sensitive to tiny changes in the microgravity of space, which could make them good navigational tools.
  — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 25 June 2018
• All of this had to be done in microgravity, an environment that could not be simulated in ground tests.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2022
• Elongation in outer space is normal, as the spine spreads out in microgravity.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2018
• That's how long scientists allowed frozen sperm to be in microgravity as part of a study on what human reproduction would look like in space.
  — Wired, 30 Oct. 2019
• Snoopy will go to space this time as a visual indicator when a spacecraft has reached the weightlessness of microgravity.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
• Several kinds of soil were recently sent to the space station to see how microgravity affects it.
  — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2020
• Plus, there are more than a thousand types of hemoglobin (the oxygen-bearing proteins in our red blood cells), some of which might respond to microgravity in different ways.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2024

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024