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Actually spaceships themselves are usually relatively light, its the rocket that puts them in space that is very heavy as it must contain both fuel and oxidizer needed for the entire flight. The weight of these rockets can be (and usually is) significantly reduced by use of staging, whereby the spent stages are discarded so that later stages don't have to lift the deadweight of large empty tanks, etc.

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