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Bookmark or Share- Baikonur Cosmodrome Overview - RocketLaunch.orgBaikonur Cosmodrome, located in Kazakhstan and leased to Russia, is the world's largest operational space launch facility. Established by the Soviet Union in 1955 primarily for ICBM testing, it later became the center of the Soviet space program.
- Baikonur Cosmodrome - WikipediaThe Baikonur Cosmodrome [a] is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan. Located in the Kazakh city of Baikonur, it is the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area. [1] All Russian crewed spaceflights are launched from Baikonur. [2]
- Touring Baikonur: The Town Behind the Famed Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ...The remote Kazakhstan town of Baikonur is a powerhouse of Russian space history. At the nearby Baikonur Cosmodrome, several notable space missions happened in the 1950s and 1960s —— it...
- Baikonur Travel Guide - Tours, Attractions and Things To Do - AdvantourMain attractions of Baikonur include two museums (one in the city and one at the cosmodrome), and numerous monuments scattered around the city. The city has many busts of famous rocket designers and astronauts; however, the brightest monument of all is the model of the rocket Soyuz .
- Humanity's unlikely gateway to space - BBCThe world's first and most secretive space base, Baikonur Cosmodrome, sits in the middle of a vast Central Asian desert, 2,600km south-east of Moscow and 1,300km from Kazakhstan's two main...
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