Baikonur

The Baikonur Cosmodrome is the world's first and largest operational space launch facility.

Andrew Bodrov
Soyuz MS-09 on the launch pad
A Soyuz-FG rocket launched the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft with International Space Station Expedition 56-57 crew members, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA and Alexander Gerst of ESA, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakh...
Andrew Bodrov
Soyuz MS-09 rolled to launch pad - 4
The Soyuz-MS is the latest revision of the Soyuz spacecraft. It is an evolution of the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft, with modernization mostly concentrated on the communications and navigation subsystems. It is used by the Russian Federal Space Agency f...
Andrew Bodrov
Soyuz MS-09 rolled to launch pad
Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, NASA astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst are slated to launch into space at 7:12 a.m. EDT (11:12 GMT) June 6, 2018.   The booster that will send the trio into or...
Andrew Bodrov
Soyuz MS-09 rolled to launch pad - 3
The Soyuz-MS is the latest revision of the Soyuz spacecraft. It is an evolution of the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft, with modernization mostly concentrated on the communications and navigation subsystems. It is used by the Russian Federal Space Agency f...
Andrew Bodrov
Soyuz MS-09 rolled to launch pad - 5
The Soyuz-MS is the latest revision of the Soyuz spacecraft. It is an evolution of the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft, with modernization mostly concentrated on the communications and navigation subsystems. It is used by the Russian Federal Space Agency f...
Andrew Bodrov
Soyuz MS-09 rolled to launch pad - 2
The Soyuz-MS is the latest revision of the Soyuz spacecraft. It is an evolution of the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft, with modernization mostly concentrated on the communications and navigation subsystems. It is used by the Russian Federal Space Agency f...
Andrew Bodrov
Soyuz MS-09 rolled to launch pad - 1
The Soyuz-MS is the latest revision of the Soyuz spacecraft. It is an evolution of the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft, with modernization mostly concentrated on the communications and navigation subsystems. It is used by the Russian Federal Space Agency f...
Andrew Bodrov
Soyuz MS ready to launch
The Soyuz-MS is the latest revision of the Soyuz spacecraft. It is an evolution of the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft, with modernization mostly concentrated on the communications and navigation subsystems. It is used by the Russian Federal Space Agency f...
Andrew Bodrov
Soyuz MS launch
The Soyuz-MS is the latest revision of the Soyuz spacecraft. It is an evolution of the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft, with modernization mostly concentrated on the communications and navigation subsystems. It is used by the Russian Federal Space Agency f...
Andrew Bodrov
Gagarin's Start. Baikonur
Gagarin's Start is a launch site at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, used for the Soviet space program and now managed by Roscosmos State Corporation. The launchpad for the world's first human spaceflight made by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 in 1961...
Andrew Bodrov
Rain at the launch pad
Rain is a hindrance to photography, so preparation is required. However, the shooting at the cosmodrome also has its own specifics: the equipment need to be installed on the launch pad at least one hour before launch. All the days ahead of the lau...
Andrew Bodrov
Launch Site: Baikonur, Pad 81, Launcher 24
October 14 at 12:37 Moscow time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to start Proton-M with the upper stage Breeze-M and telecommunication spacecraft Intelsat 23. According to cyclogram flight at 12:46 Moscow time was divested head unit (upp...
Andrew Bodrov
Carrier Rocket Proton-M on the launch pad
October 14 at 12:37 Moscow time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to start Proton-M with the upper stage Breeze-M and telecommunication spacecraft Intelsat 23. According to cyclogram flight at 12:46 Moscow time was divested head unit (upp...
Andrew Bodrov
Carrier Rocket Proton-M on the launch pad
October 14 at 12:37 Moscow time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to start Proton-M with the upper stage Breeze-M and telecommunication spacecraft Intelsat 23. According to cyclogram flight at 12:46 Moscow time was divested head unit (upp...
Andrew Bodrov
Proton-M, part rotated to the vertical position
October 14 at 12:37 Moscow time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to start Proton-M with the upper stage Breeze-M and telecommunication spacecraft Intelsat 23. According to cyclogram flight at 12:46 Moscow time was divested head unit (upp...