It is possible to experience weightlessness in a spacecraft flying through space aonly when you are drifting and the engines are shut off bin any set of circumstances, since you're always weightless in space, regardless of whether the engines are firing or not conly when you're very far from any massive bodies like planets, moons, or stars donly when your are in a circular orbit around a planet, moon, or star

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It is possible to experience weightlessness in a spacecraft flying through space

	a	only when you are drifting and the engines are shut off
	b	in any set of circumstances, since you're always weightless in space, regardless of whether the engines are firing or not
	c	only when you're very far from any massive bodies like planets, moons, or stars
	d	only when your are in a circular orbit around a planet, moon, or star

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