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An astronaut is doing a repair work on a space station. Suddenly, he loses
his grip and finds himself drifting away from the space station. In less than an hour, because of oxygen depletion, he will simply be…DEAD! What can
he do so he can return safely to the space station? Explain using Newton's Laws of Motion.
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