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This place became historical for the whole planet,
here the faith of our civilization was decided and the countdown
of the new era of living for people started.
In 1954 the marshal of the Soviet Union Georgyi Jukov determines
a task to find a place to become an experimental range for the rockets
testing. The place was found - it became a Tura-Tam double-track
section, situated in the endless steppe of Kazakhstan, unknown,
hidden from the eyes of the people.
Finally the experimental range was built. On October 4, 1957 that
rocket brought the first artificial Earth sattelite to the orbit.
After that the experimental range got a name - Cosmodrome. On April
12, 1961 Yuryi Gagarin made the first cosmic flight around the Earth
on his spaceship "Vostok". It lasted for 108 min. After that the
Cosmodrome gets a name "Baykonur" and the city gets a name Leninsk.
Since 1992 the vast activity was stopped at cosmodrome. Since 1994
Russia has renewed its cosmic programs at Baykonur. At present Russia
has an agreement with Kazakhstan of exploitation of Baykonur for
20 years with the future extension of the agreement. Nowadays Baykonur
is an island of Russia on the huge territory of Kazakhstan. Only
research and national economic launches take place in Baykonur now.
All the military launches are done from Plesetsk launching site
near Moscow.
| Baykonur Spacelaunch |
7 Days |
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| Spacecrafts of Baykonur |
7 Days |
Dossier |
| By Silk Road to Baykonur |
12 Days |
Dossier |
Plan of the launches from "Baykonur" cosmodrome
for year 2001
| January 2001 29th |
EO pilot spaceship "Soiuz TM" launch with the
cosmonauts S. Sharipov and P. Vinogradov on board. |
| April 2001 |
Spaceship "Soiuz TM" # 207 launch. |
| June-July 2001 |
30th launch of EO-30 pilot spaceship "Soiuz TM"
with the cosmonauts T. Musabaev and U. Baturin on board. It
is planned that the first cosmonaut-tourist D. Tito will join
them. |
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Number of launches in the second part of year
2001. |
| October 2001 |
"Soiuz TM" #211 pilot spaceship launch |
Day 16
(Tue) |
Drive to Almaty |
Outlook for the future launches
From year 2003 to 2014 up to 9 launches on the program of docking
of the European cargo spaceships to "Zvezda" orbital station.
| March 2003 |
First planned start launch on above program. |
| April 2003 |
European scientific module launch. |
| June 2004 |
European scientific module launch. |
"Kan Tengri Mountain Service" does not guarantee exact terms and
dates of the launches. As a rule, they depend on technical and financial
conditions.
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