It wasn't explained in the movie but maybe it was in the novel. I could imagine two different scenarios:
• They used artificial gravity which was turned off during orbit shift
• The gravity was coming from the planet and the floating was caused be changing gears, so to speak
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You are focussing on the wrong aspect of this entirely. There's little point in trying to "work out" the plot of a Tarkovsky film. They are not about narrative in the way that most films are, so you would be wasting your time trying to figure a technical explanation of why the gravity suddenly disappears.
shareNow that Interstellar has been the hot sci-fi movie for the past year, I assume people think it's impossible to keep people and gravity in artificial environments in space unless they get data out of a black hole, LOL.
shareIt wasn't explained in the movie but maybe it was in the novel. I could imagine two different scenarios:
• They used artificial gravity which was turned off during orbit shift
It's mentioned in passing, but not explained. Where does the gravity come from after the orbit shift is completed? Orbiting itself causes zero gravity, at least above Earth it does.
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I think that the artificial gravity was created by the station rotating around its own axis. When they shifted the orbit they had to temporarily stop that rotation in order to move to the new orbit (it would be difficult to maneuver the craft while rotating).
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