Why doesn't the Moon fall down to Earth?
You said there is no gravity in space, so astronauts float. The space station is falling around Earth the whole time.
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Why does the Moon change shape?
You said Earth's shadow covers the Moon to make phases. A phase is only how much of the Moon's sunlit half is facing us.
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