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Spaceship Junkyard: some amazing photos of the retro-tastic Future As Now by Jonas Bendiksen.


ALTAI, Russia – Villagers collect scrap from a crashed spacecraft, surrounded by thousands of white butterflies, 2000.
Environmentalists fear for the region’s future due to toxic rocket fuel.


ALTAI, Russia – A farmer takes an evening stroll past the wreck of a Soyuz spacecraft, 2000. In this farming village, rockets routinely fall into people’s back yards.


KAZAKHSTAN – Scrap-metal dealers wait for a rocket to crash, 2000.

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