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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

Doesn't need to be forward and up, just forward, orbital physics is fun that way. And yeah, even if all ~1200 kg of air in the ISS's pressurized volume escaped at the speed of sound (completely unrealistic overestimate), the station's velocity change would be around 1 m/s, which is only enough to decrease its orbit by a kilometer or two.