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> "our national lab orbiting Earth,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Is it though?
by fcsp 6y ago
> "our national lab orbiting Earth,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.
Is it though?
- JshWright 6y agoYes...? It's a lab, used by our nation, orbiting the Earth.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoYes. Because the Earth is so much more massive than the ISS, the Earth-ISS barycenter is probably a nanometer at the most away from the Earth's own center of mass. So even though technically it isn't true that the ISS is orbiting the center of the Earth, it's close enough for government work (and the barycenter is certainly inside the Earth)