Is 10,700 slugs as heavy as The Space Shuttle?
It's about two times as heavy as The Space Shuttle
The weight of The Space Shuttle is about 4,900 slugs.
(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 4,900 slugs. The shuttle's spacious cargo bay carried the Chandra X-ray Observatory into orbit in 1999 — a payload that weighed 1,400 slugs.
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