Launch Sites in Kazakhstan

The cosmodrome where space flight began: Sputnik in 1957 and Gagarin in 1961. Sprawling over the Kazakh steppe, Baikonur is leased...

Site 1 at Baikonur, the pad that launched Sputnik 1 in 1957 and Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 in 1961. For six decades it served th...

The second R-7 launch pad at Baikonur, used for Soyuz rockets since the early 1960s. Long a partner to Gagarin Start, it became th...

Built for the N1 Moon rocket, Site 110 saw all four N1 launch failures between 1969 and 1972, including a July 1969 explosion that...