07 July 2016
Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft launched successfully from Baikonur
The Soyuz-FG rocket carrying the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft launched today at 4:36 a.m. GMT from Baikonur Cosmodrome. The Soyuz spacecraft will bring commander Anatoly Ivanishin, Japanese flight engineer Takuya Onishi and ...
December 2014
Gods and space
Getting a helping hand – An Orthodox priest performs a blessing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad in Kazakhstan, ahead of the Soyuz launch that carried Expedition 41 to the International Space Station in September 2014
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... fix that took years, but it is expected to be shipped to Baikonur for launch in 2021. One successful strategy was to try to spread costs...had been some renovations in the cosmodromes of Plesetsk and Baikonur in the 1990s, but they were paid for by ...
25 September 2020
Baikonur - Vestiges of the Soviet Space Programme
...Kourou, Shriharikota, Woomera... choose your favourite. The Baikonur Cosmodrome is among the most notable, not least ...Secret…’ guides and ‘Abandoned…’ places series, this photo book on Baikonur fits well into the Abandoned genre. More of an art book...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... are now conceiving global projects that cannot be achieved without international cooperation. Soyuz on the launch pad at Baikonur cosmodrome Indeed, last summer, ESA Director General Johann-Dietrich Worner, reaffirmed the necessity of thinking ahead...
March 2015
Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond
...thing the telephone was still working. We started calling the Baikonur power station. We remember the voice of the officer on...In turn, the Defence Minister woke up the director of Baikonur and apparently explained in no uncertain terms that what was ...
