What If You Fell From the International Space Station?

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410 kilometers (254 miles) above the Earth. That's where the International Space Station floats. What if you happened to be all the way up here but suddenly fell off and had to skydive down to Earth? What would happen? Is something like this possible? How fast would you travel from this height? And what would happen once you got back to Earth?

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