Weigh It Up · Vehicles
How heavy is Space Shuttle?
78 tweight
The Space Shuttle orbiter weighed about 78 tonnes empty.
Enter your height to compare yourself with Space Shuttle.
- 6.5× the city bus (12 t)
- 13× the african elephant (6 t)
- 60× the family car (1.3 t)
How to picture 78 t
Start from something you can see right now. Space Shuttle is about 6.5× city bus. That is exactly the estimate the board asks you to draw: pick a reference, decide the ratio, resize the silhouette.
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