The Lady Jasmine was a far cry from the primitive "space pods" of the Discovery era, capable of operating only in a gravity-free environment.

And for companies unaccustomed to the gravity-free environment of the Internet, the probable price tag of any of these money-losing search companies might seem ridiculously high.

She quickly realized she was unfortunately not weightless like an astronaut in orbit aboard the space shuttle, and enjoyed none of the motive advantages of a gravity-free environment.

Here in the nursery, she loved to watch the Roamer children play and laugh while learning movement skills in the gravity-free environment.

He passed a sweet shop, its display window brimming with chocolate fudge squares and eclairs and delicate spiral crumb buns baked in the gravity-free environment of center-sky.

He'd guessed that the Hortas, adapted by centuries of evolution to life within the dense interior of a planet, would be ill-equipped to cope with a gravity-free environment.

They had been built for a gravity-free environment and would have disintegrated under the strain of climbing down the gravity well to the surface.

After a moment of watching the various people tethered to those workstations, Sanchit realized that they were in a gravity-free environment.

This means even simple earthly problems like diarrhea can create unique problems in a gravity-free environment - that's some travelers diarrhea.

Failures Termed a 'Sideshow' Most commercial space ventures such as communications and processing of materials in a gravity-free environment require only a low-earth orbit.