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Posted by angel on Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 5:28pm.

Suppose you are an astronaut making a spacewalk outside the space shuttle. In your excitement about your walk,you use up all the gas in your reaction jet. How do you get back to the shuttle

science - Elena, Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 6:04pm
Use Newton's 3 law:
You can get back to your station if you throw your reaction jet away

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