stackyFACTSBuilding a house is expensive, but building a house that falls through the vacuum of space at 17,500 miles per hour will completely bankrupt you.
Building a house is expensive, but building a house that falls through the vacuum of space at 17,500 miles per hour will completely bankrupt you. The International Space Station cost an estimated $150 billion to design, launch, and assemble. To put that staggering economic sinkhole into perspective, it cost roughly 50 times more than the Burj Khalifa. And all that money buys you is the privilege of drinking recycled sweat while orbiting the Earth.
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