Mir 20 was a harbinger of the multinational missions that will be typical of international Space Station. It was the second Mir mission with a simultaneous Euromir designation, the second with an ESA astronaut as part of the crew. (Ulf Merbold, the first ESA astronaut aboard Mir, conducted Euromir 94 in October and.... more

Scientists at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan are making final preparations for Wednesday's launch of a Soyuz craft to the International Space Station. The 16th expedition is made up of two professional crew members - a Russian and an American - and Malaysia's first space tourist.

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Proton M rocket launches DirecTV-10 satellite (Baikonur cosmodrome).

The world's space community marks half a century since the beginning of the Space Age. Fifty years ago, on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Sputnik - the first-ever artificial satellite -- blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Soviet Union. Sputnik-1 was a simple radio transmitter locked in a steel ball.

The events of the morning of March 28th, 2006, in Baikonur. Launch of the first Brazilian astronaut, Marcos Cesar Pontes.

"Baikonur" party

Buran LauchPad

The erection to vertical position of the Soyuz rocket in Baikonur. The rocket carries the Foton-M3 ESA/Roskosmos mission and the YES2 payload.

The Buran spacecraft (Буран, "snowstorm" or "blizzard"), serial number 11F35 K1, was the only fully completed and operational space shuttle from the Soviet Union's Buran program. It had only one (unmanned) spaceflight, in 1988, before the program was cancelled in 1993. It was destroyed by a.... more