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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Unless the craft encountered an obstacle (gravity, astroid, etc) in space it would continue on its path with no change in speed or direction forever.

However, assuming your putting an object in orbit of the sun/earth/etc, it will slow down and be pulled into the object of highest gravitational pull.

But this can take anywhere between days to millions of years. It all depends on the proximity of gravitation mass and any obstacles.