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 ...

Baikonur continues to be a magnet for international scientific cooperation. Work is underway to prepare an application for the inclusion of its launch complex in the UNESCO World Heritage List ...

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.

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 ...