Question: how much weight can a space ship hold ????????????

Rochelle Velho answered on 21 Jan 2016:

The mass of an object stays the same wherever it is, but its weight can change. The weight of something depends on gravity. I like this page on the BBC website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/energy_electricity_forces/forces/revision/3/)

The limit of how much mass we can send into space inside a space ship depends on lots of factors:
What do we need to take?
How much fuel is it going to burn? Can we afford to pay that?
Will making our rocket ship heavy slow it down?
Will it affect how far it can go?
What are the different forces acting on it? (https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/fwrat.html)