Fact 118: What is the most expensive man-made object?

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 Fact 118: What is the most expensive man-made object?


This man-made object's total estimated cost will be around £66.7 billion and it is not on Earth, in fact, the most expensive man-made object that I am referring to is the International Space Station (ISS). The International Space Station is 357 feet long (from end to end)

(If you lived for 66.7 billion minutes you would be 126,903 years old) 

The International Space Station orbits around the Earth, at an average altitude (basically means height) of 248 miles (400 kilometres)

the International Space Station circles the Earth every 90 minutes at an average speed of about 17,500 mph.





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