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International Space Station may be beautiful, but it has tragically been scorned by true interplanetary exploration enthusiasts as a money-sucking boondoggle. This month it enters the final stages of its complex assembly even though it's scheduled to be phased out by 2017 (and presumably allowed to burn up before plummeting into the sea). Nevertheless, the ISS is an absolutely glorious piece of orbital installation art. Peep at an image gallery of this high-tech, zero-grav masterpiece after the jump.
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