Is 29,000,000,000 carats as heavy as The Space Shuttle?
It's about 85 times as heavy as The Space Shuttle
The weight of The Space Shuttle is about 350,000,000 carats.
(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 350,000,000 carats. The shuttle's spacious cargo bay carried the Chandra X-ray Observatory into orbit in 1999 — a payload that weighed 96,000,000 carats.
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