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They are in free fall. That is, the ONLY force acting on them is gravity, and to them, that feels as if there were no gravity. Imagine the person next to a spacecraft - and both are orbiting Earth. The person accelerates towards Earth - but so does the spacecraft, and it does so at the same rate, so they stay close together, at least initially.

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