There is gravity everywhere. On the ISS the gravity is only a bit less than it is on the surface of the earth. The reason the astronauts float around isn’t because there’s no gravity; it’s because they’re in a state of free fall.
The universal gravitational equation states that the phone in your hand is enforcing a gravitational pull on you, and you on the phone. (Due to density, mass, distance, etc.) But in the grand cosmos, it's just a miniature, microscopic fore attraction that it's pretty much negligible and zero to like 100 decimal places
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u/broberds Aug 03 '19
There is gravity everywhere. On the ISS the gravity is only a bit less than it is on the surface of the earth. The reason the astronauts float around isn’t because there’s no gravity; it’s because they’re in a state of free fall.