Correction for the weight of The Space Shuttle

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How heavy is 1,400 tons?

It's about eighteen times as heavy as The Space Shuttle

The weight of The Space Shuttle is about 78 tons.

(for Endeavour, a.k.a. OV-105, a.k.a. Orbiter Vehicle-105) (empty weight, excluding main engines)

When empty, the space shuttle Endeavour weighs 78 tons. The shuttle's spacious cargo bay carried the Chandra X-ray Observatory into orbit in 1999 — a payload that weighed 22 tons.

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