Relying too much on the offensive weapons of their acute angles instead of the defensive organs of good sense and seasonable simulation, these reckless creatures too often neglect the prescribed construction of the women's apartments, or irritate their wives by ill-advised expressions out of doors, which they refuse immediately to retract.
The International Space Station travels in orbit around Earth at a speed of roughly 17,150 miles per hour (that's about 5 miles per second!). This means that the Space Station orbits Earth (and sees a sunrise) once every 92 minutes!
So in the same 6 minutes it would take to free fall 640 km (400 miles), the ISS moves 8000 km (5000 miles) horizontally. Those two motions occur simultaneously, and the result is a smooth circular orbit. At higher altitudes gravity is weaker, and less horizontal speed is required to maintain orbit.