Baikonur Cosmodrome
Baikonur Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport in Kazakstan. It is located about 200km east of the Aral Sea, on the right (north/east) side of the Syr Darya.
It was constructed by the Soviet Union, initially as a test site for intercontinental ballistic missiles. The location is near the Kazak village of Tyuratam which was a station on the main Moscow to Tashkent railway. A new city was constructed to service the cosmodrome; the city was renamed Baikonur in the 1990s. The name "Baikonur" was originally a futile attempt to hide the location of the massive facility, chosen during the publicity of the first manned space mission: the original Baikonur is a mining town a few hundred kilometres northeast.
All Russian manned space missions and launches to geostationary orbit take place at Baikonur.
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