If you were in a spacecraft moving at 1000 miles/hour in outer space and you turned off the engines, what would happen to the speed and direction of your spacecraft & why?

Question

If you were in a spacecraft moving at 1000 miles/hour in outer space and you turned off the engines, what would happen to the speed and direction of your spacecraft & why?

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Answer 1

It’d carry on as it was before you turned your engines off until it hits either a solid mass or a gravity field. Because there’s no air in space there’s no resistance for the vehicle.