When air gets sucked out from a spacestation or whatever, where does the sucked out air go ?

Question

When air gets sucked out from a spacestation or whatever, where does the sucked out air go ?

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

It depends on where the space station is at the time.

If it’s in space, that’s where the air goes. It’ll likely eventually be gathered up by the gravitational pull of some celestial body, but it’s out into space to start.

If its orbit degraded and it splashed down in the sea, that’s where the air would go (likely rising to the surface and entering the atmosphere).

Wherever the space station is, that’s where the air would go initially.