Cosmodrome
Assembly & Fueling Building for Buran
A legendary space object you have to see! In the heart of Baikonur, inside a mysterious hangar, the MZK or Assembly & Fueling Building on site 112A, two unique artifacts of the Soviet space dream still rest: “Burya” – a…
Dynamic Test Stand facility with Energia-M rocket
Here, the Energia was literally put to the test – shaken like in a hurricane, slammed with over-loads, pushed to its limits. Did it hold up? It FLYED! This is not just a test stand – its a time machine…
Gagarin’s start – Launch Pad No. 1
This is Launch Pad No. 1 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, from which, on April 12, 1961 at 09:07 a.m. Moscow time, the Vostok launch vehicle carried the first human in space – Yuri Gagarin. From this very spot, the following…
