Established at the dawn of the Cold War space race in the 1950s, Baikonur is Russia’s chief spaceport and, for now, the only launchpad in the world for manned flights.

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) -A Russian spacecraft safely delivered an American astronaut Jonathan Kim and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, a flight ...

On 14 March, the launch window opens for ExoMars 2016, ESA’s next mission to Mars, composed of the Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli. Last month, the two spacecraft left Thales Alenia Space in ...

It was on 2 June 1955 that the organisational and staffing structure of the research and testing site was approved. Just two years later, the first R-7 rocket was launched from Baikonur, followed ...

MOSCOW, March 31. /TASS/. The Soyuz-2.1b carrier vehicle is to take off from the Baikonur spaceport on Sunday afternoon to launch the Resurs-P Earth remote sensing satellite into orbit.

MOSCOW - A Tselina electronic intelligence satellite was launched June 10 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, after being delayed repeatedly since late April because of unspecified technical ...

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, April 8 (Reuters) - A Russian spacecraft safely delivered an American astronaut Jonathan Kim and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, a ...