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Is 0.0246 megatonnes as heavy as The Space Shuttle?

It's about 350 times as heavy as The Space Shuttle
The weight of The Space Shuttle is about 0.0000710 megatonnes.
(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 0.0000710 megatonnes. The shuttle's spacious cargo bay carried the Chandra X-ray Observatory into orbit in 1999 — a payload that weighed 0.0000200 megatonnes.
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