Eli5: if on space Newtown law says that for every action there is an equal reaction, people moving through the ISS will eventualy make it go out of orbit?

Question

They are moving themselves by pulling on the rods, won’t that make the ISS move very little, but after a ton of movement and a ton of time, won’t it move closer or farther from the orbit and collide with earth or drift through space?

In: Physics

Answer 1

I’m not completely sure, but I believe ISS has small thrusters like the space shuttles do. So that way they can correct those movements.

If not the ISS would be just like the satellites in ordit. Slowly but surely the Earth’s gravitational pull will eventually pull ISS into the upper atmosphere and at some point will cause it to crash into the earth.

Either way the ISS won’t get pushed into outter space, but yes the latter explanation will push it out of orbit whereas the former stays in orbit.