Baikonur is the first and largest cosmodrome in the world, located on the territory of Kazakhstan..And they called it so the Soviet secret services, trying to confuse the "potential enemy" .The fact is that in Kazakhstan there really is a town of Baikonur, but it is located about 350 kilometers from the true location of the cosmodrome, the village of Tyratam .The analysis of the trajectories of the first ballistic missiles launched from the cosmodrome immediately showed that the present cosmodrome (in secret: 45º57 's .ш ., 63º18 'at .д .) and the real Baikonur - different geographical points .But this name with the help of newspapers, radio and television has become generally accepted .

From the Baikonur cosmodrome, the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite and the first manned flight into space, the manned spacecraft of the series "Vostok", "Voskhod" and "Soyuz" were launched. Orbital stations of the Salyut and Mir series, the reusable energy system "Energy" - "Buran", interplanetary spacecraft and artificial satellites of the Earth.
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Excursion to Baikonur

Now tourists have a unique opportunity to make a tour of manned and unmanned launches of spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. For three days happy tourists will make a sightseeing tour of the cosmodrome, an excursion to the "Gagarinsky start", visit the museum of the history of space exploration, memorial houses of Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev.

They will also be able to visit and inspect the launch sites and the famous historical sites of the cosmodrome. For example, Soyuz and Proton launch complexes, Proton assembly and testing buildings and Energiya RSC Energia.

In addition to the program of the tour often include several days of stay in Moscow (of course, for residents of other cities) with a slightly less interesting, but also worthy of the excursion program.

Such "space tours" are carried out infrequently (as well as the flights themselves), applications must be submitted for at least 2 months. The approximate cost is around 3000-3500 USD.

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