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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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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You fly off out of the solar system. Why, because it is literally what happened to voyager 1. You just head off in the direction you are facing and unless you start falling into another planet’s gravity or hit an asteroid, you send off into interstellar space.