The International Space Station may be beautiful , but it has tragically been freeze off by lawful interplanetary geographic expedition fancier as a money - suckle boondoggle . This month it enters the final stages of its complex gathering even though it ’s scheduled to be phase out by 2017 ( and presumptively allowed to burn up up before plump into the sea ) . Nevertheless , the ISS is an utterly magnificent slice of orbital installation artistic creation . Peep at an picture gallery of this high - tech , zero - grav chef-d’oeuvre after the startle .
Airy , increasingly symmetrical as additional modules are added , with shimmer golden solar extension , it resume four decade of detached - populace place - age aesthetics . C’m on people , stare upon its cobweb elegance ! If da Vinci had ever seen anything even remotely like it , he would have shit his pants , rapturously . And if you ever pulled up aboard in a Space Shuttle , we wager you would , too . It kicks Skylab ’s bum and makes Mir await like it was ridden severely and put up wet . Plus it snap well , from every angle , and against every background . All picture AP / NASA .
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