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Is 300,000 stones as heavy as The Space Shuttle?

It's about thirty times as heavy as The Space Shuttle
The weight of The Space Shuttle is about 11,000 stones.
(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 11,000 stones. The shuttle's spacious cargo bay carried the Chandra X-ray Observatory into orbit in 1999 — a payload that weighed 3,100 stones.
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