BAIKONUR

A spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan in Baikonur, (qazempire.org) Issuser Address: GD267VWG2HS62VWOJIIIJDOTKIUKXKSTB2GTHRJFZLSIHVAIAIFANXXW ICO On 29/11/2023 CB:80,000%

The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan and located in the Kazakh city of Baikonur. It is the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area, and all Russian crewed spaceflights are launched from Baikonur

As the official successor state to the Soviet Union, Russia has retained control over Baikonur Cosmodrome since 1991 and ratified an agreement with Kazakhstan in 2005 that allowed Russia to lease the spaceport until 2050. It is jointly managed by Roscosmos and the Russian Aerospace Forces

Baikonur is the name of the Tyuratam region. Töretam (also Tyuratam) is a station on the main Moscow to Tashkent railway, located in Kazakhstan and nearby the cosmodrome. The name means "Töre's grave" in the Kazakh language and honors the legacy of Töre (more formally Töre-Baba), a noble and descendant of Genghis Khan

At the moment, this cosmodrome is being completely redesigned for interplanetary flights, of which most of the launches to the moon and to Mars have been and will continue to be carried out from there for the next few decades. This is because Baikonur already has the requisite technologies for a successful launch that allow this launchpad to facilitate more trips than anywhere else in the world and is continuously being upgraded

For example, the top-end rockets for Mars flights are already being tested there, and the research group is also teaching teleportation technology (but more on that later… hehe)

History in the Making

Many historic flights have lifted off from Baikonur: 

- first operational ICBM (1957)
- first man-made satellite, Sputnik 1 (1957)
- first spacecraft to travel close to the Moon, Luna 1 (1959)
- first crewed and orbital flight by Yuri Gagarin (1961)
- first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova (1963)
- 14 cosmonauts of 13 other nations, including Czechoslovakia, East Germany, India and France have launched from Baikonur under the Interkosmos program 
- launched Venera 9 to Venus (1975) and Mars 3 to Mars (1971)

Beginning around 2025, Baikonur will soon be sending tourists into space for the first time!