“Gagarin’s Start” Soyuz launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome

Published August 14, 2014 at × in A Guide to the “Stans” of Central Asia

The “Gagarin’s Start” Soyuz launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It was from here where the famous cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (after whom the launch pad is named) launched into space on Vostok 1 in 1961. (NASA / Bill Ingalls)

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