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It depends on the mass of the starship in question.

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What happens if you step outside of a spaceship traveling at light speed?

Well first of all, you don't. No object that has any mass when it's sitting still will ever travel at light speed. To answer your question in general: If you're sitting inside a spaceship, sipping a cup of coffee and surfing the web, and you decide to take a break from your back-breaking labor and step outside for a few minutes, then the moment you're outside, you continue traveling at the same speed and in the same direction that the ship was when you let go of it. If the ship is traveling with constant velocity ... constant speed in a straight line ... then you seem to float motionless next to it, because your speed and direction are exactly the same as the spaceship's. If the ship is accelerating, then you keep the speed and direction that you and it had when you let go, and the ship goes on its own merry way, leaving you behind, beside, or ahead.