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You must also remember that the moment that the Canada Arm RMS,
or astronaut Bob, attached by his feet ps to the shuttle, grabs
something, then the shuttle, the astronaut, and thething
grabbed are, as far as the physics dynamics are concerned, a
single object whose center of mass if now slightly different
than before.
  If astronaut Bob or the RMS movese object, such as a
satellite, there is ALWAYS an equal and opposite movement. The
amount of opposite movement is determined by the relative
masses of the two objects and the length of the lever-arm doing
the moving.
   I was doing weightlessness training aboard an IL-76 MDK over
Star City, Russia, it was easy to move a 200 KG mass as long as
my feet were secury tucked under restraining ropes between the
floormats, but when I attempted it floating in mid-air, I moved
myself more than twice the distance that I was able to move the
mass itself...both sides of the equation balance!


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