26. In space, if we dropped something very, very heavy, something that weighed thousands and thousands of pounds, would it still float? (A K2S Question)

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Again, you can't drop anything as everything floats. Remember that the Space Shuttle weighs about 200,000 pounds on Earth and it floats nicely.

Answer provided by Byron Lichtenberg, Ph.D.

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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