En route to the asteroid, the two space shuttles head to the Russian space station to refuel. To simulate gravity, the cosmonaut aboard the space station fires a few rockets to put the space station into the spin. Assuming the space station's spoke arms (where the shuttles dock) are about 50 feet long, it spins at 8 revolutions a minute. That makes it impossible to dock; it'd be like trying to drive a car on ice-covered roads into a spinning parking garage. There's another, more fundamental, problem: the artificial gravity points in the wrong direction. Think of spinning rides at the amusement park. The spinning motion creates an artificial gravity, an effective outward-pushing force. On the space station, the spinning would tend to throw the astronauts down the station's spoke arms and back onto the shuttle. Also, the artificial gravity would taper off to nothing at the center. But the movie's artificial gravity somehow points down, not outward, and appears to work equally well throughout the station.

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