07. Could a space station be sucked into another planet's gravitational pull? (A K2S Question)

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No. Mars and other planets have such a mass and are simply too far away—more than 30 million miles—to exert such a large gravitational force on a space station.

Answer provided by Thomas Rogers & Russell Romanella


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