When Sweeny unbuckles the straps on his couch after the engines stop, he thinks he is falling. Cargraves tells him that he's not falling- but he's in "free orbit" and weightless. The ship never went into orbit, the trajectory was what is called "direct ascent" meaning that it bypassed any orbital phase on its way to the moon.
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