Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan has been the launch site for Soviet and Russian space missions since the beginning of space exploration in 1957. The first satellite and the first human flew into ...

On July 3, 1969, an unthinkable event unfolded at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, as the Soviet N1 rocket, a colossal machine designed to send astronauts to the moon, exploded with ...

Prior to launch, the Soyuz rocket carrying the spacecraft was put on a railway track and sent to the launchpad on June 4, passing extremely close to journalists.

Kazakhstan may want jurisdiction over Russia's main rocket-launching site, ... A Russian Soyuz-FG rocket launches 5 satellites from Baikonur launch site on July 22. Roscosmos ...

The rocket being towed to the launch site. Image The crew of Soyuz MS-11, including flight engineer Ann McClain of NASA, left, and commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, en route to the launch pad.

The Secret Backstory Behind Kazakhstan's Rocket Launch Site. News. ... BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN -- The Proton M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on December 11, 2011.

An Orthodox priest blesses the Soyuz-FG rocket booster launch site on Wednesday, ... The Soyuz-FG rocket booster blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft and crew.

PARIS — I nternational Launch Services (ILS) expects to inaugurate a second commercial Proton-M launch pad at Russia’s BaikonurCosmodrome in Kazakhstan this summer to assure the company… ...

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — Engineers hoisted a Russian rocket bound for the international space station onto its launch pad Tuesday.A flatbed train delivered the booster rocket — and the attached ...

Dnepr LV with two experimental satellites of Japanese Space Agency is to be launched from Baikonur in the mid-August. OICETS, one of the satellites, was delivered to Baikonur today – informed O ...

The big rocket, standing nearly 179 feet (54.5 meters) tall, rumbled off the Vostochny launch pad at 5:00 a.m. ET this morning, according to Russian space agency Roscosmos. The mission went as ...

Kazakhstan may want jurisdiction over Russia's main rocket-launching site, which lies within the Central Asian nation's borders, according to media reports.