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 ...

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 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 ...

Baikonur is officially considered to have been founded on June 2, 1955. Construction was carried out in the bare steppe, where the only existing element of infrastructure at the time was a railway ...

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 ...