Science Secrets · Drawing 17 of 40
Lunch Is Floating!
Space · An imagined scene
In this orbiting spacecraft, lunch seems to float. The spacecraft and everything inside it fall together around Earth. Gravity is still there!
Did you know?
An orbiting spacecraft moves fast enough to keep falling around Earth.
Look together
What might help keep lunch close by?
An idea to try
Draw an imaginary space meal. Invent a way to secure its container and explain your idea.
For the adult reading along
A little more to discover
This floating-lunch scene in an orbiting spacecraft is imagined. Shared free fall explains apparent floating in orbit; gravity is not absent. Objects do not automatically stay near an astronaut.
Sources and illustration notes (1)
Simplified scene and shapes. Models, imagined comparisons and enlargements do not preserve all real measurements.
These links lead to other websites. Explore them with an adult. References identify the institution and the related lesson; some linked pages are in French.
- NASA: What Is Microgravity?Astronauts seem to float because they are in free fall: the spacecraft, crew and objects all fall toward but around Earth. At the space station’s altitude, gravity is still about 90 percent as strong as at the surface.
Page prepared on October 12, 2026. Illustrations are simplified for colouring.
This drawing is from the book Science Secrets to Colour
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