The Baikonur Cosmodrome, photographed from the International Space Station by ESA astronaut and geophysicist Alexander Gerst. …
The Baikonur Cosmodrome, photographed from the International Space Station by ESA astronaut and geophysicist Alexander Gerst.
*Baikonur always looks so lovely in photos, doesn’t it? The place seems to be brimming over with cozy Kazakh charm. Not at all conjuring images of crushing desolation, rotting and seeping into a lifeless, windswept plain that only offers indifference, suffering, and the occasional barrel of toxic waste or unexploded ordnance - extending forever in every direction. Nope.