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

If far away from any celestial object with huge mass, not much would happen – it will travel in the same direction at least for a good time, while the speed may decrease or increase and direction may change depending on where the object with the biggest gravitational pull would be relative to the spacecraft.