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Is 625 long tons as heavy as The Space Shuttle?

It's about nine times as heavy as The Space Shuttle
The weight of The Space Shuttle is about 70 long 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 70 long tons. The shuttle's spacious cargo bay carried the Chandra X-ray Observatory into orbit in 1999 — a payload that weighed 19 long tons.
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