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A space shuttle's weight at liftoff is approximately 4.5 million pounds.
A typical space shuttle weighs around 4.5 million pounds (2,041 metric tons) at liftoff.
The Space Shuttle weighs 165,000 pounds empty and with the Shuttle, external tank, solid rocket boosters and all the fuel combined the total weight is 4.4 million pounds. The Shuttle can also carry a 65,000 pound payload.
Endeavour, the Space Shuttle Orbiter, had a weight of approximately 78,000 kilograms (171,000 pounds) at liftoff.
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The Columbia space shuttle weighed about 90,000 pounds (40,823 kilograms) without any payload during its missions.
A space shuttle's weight at liftoff is approximately 4.5 million pounds.
A typical space shuttle weighs around 4.5 million pounds (2,041 metric tons) at liftoff.
The Space Shuttle weighs 165,000 pounds empty and with the Shuttle, external tank, solid rocket boosters and all the fuel combined the total weight is 4.4 million pounds. The Shuttle can also carry a 65,000 pound payload.
The Space Shuttle weighed 74,843 kilograms empty.
The average cost of a space shuttle mission is $450 million
approx.1 month
Enough to carry a bus in it's payload bay.
The space shuttle program ended in 2011, so there are no more planned space shuttle flights. NASA has shifted its focus to other spacecraft and rockets for future missions to space.