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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It will continue moving at 1000mph in the same direction until something causes it not to.
Most of space is a pure vacuum. There is no air or other matter to cause friction and slow it down like if it was flying in Earth’s atmosphere. It will keep traveling at that same speed and direction until a force or object comes in contact with it and affects its direction and speed of travel.
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