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An international trio flying in a Russian capsule docked the International Space Station on Wednesday with a busy schedule full of space walks and an encounter with a pioneering US cargo craft.

Kazakhstan wants to make rocket launches from Baikonur cosmodrome a tourist attraction.

Tengrinews.kz reported earlier, citing Russia’s Izvestia, that Russia may bring its operations at the Baikonur cosmodrome close to zero as early as by 2020.

We are aligning projects so that Baikonur could be also used. Surely, we will be exploiting it in partnership with space experts and agencies of Kazakhstan: Vladimir Putin.

Along the crisis scenario, Baikonur infrastructure will only be supported after 2021 to accommodate individual launches.

The joint use of Baikonur cosmodrome rented by Russia from Kazakhstan has to be reviewed: head of Roskosmos.

Kazakhstan and Russia agreed to use Zenit launcher in Baiterek (SRC) space rocket complex.

A crew of two Russians and an American blasted off Friday on a Russian rocket for the International Space Station, in a trip scheduled to be the fastest ever manned journey to the facility.

Head of RosKosmos Vladimir Popovkin declared that Proton launchers would be withdrawn from service after 2020.

Baikonur space center is going to be part of the EXPO-2017 in Kazakhstan.

Outgoing Sabit Kozhakhmetov has been relieved of his duties of President’s special representative at Baikonur as he is being transferred to another position.

According to him, in return, Kazakhstan doesn’t prevent Russia from launching Proton carrier rockets.

The Kazakh side will respect all the agreements reached earlier with Russia, our major strategic partner: Vice PM Kairat Kelimbetov.

A Soyuz-2.1 a rocket carrier carrying 6 Globalstar-2 communications satellites will be launched at 22:20 Astana time.

Center for ground-based space infrastructure facilities operation (TsENKI) injected another $ 83.2 million into the cosmodrome’s facilities.

The Russian side will pay $460 000 a year for the use of the rocket drop zone regardless of the number of Soyuz launches.

We have a clear agreement with Kazakhstan on launches from 2013 to 2015 inclusive: Roskosmos Head Vladimir Popovkin.

January 30 Russia’s First Vice PM Igor Shuvalov and Kazakhstan’s Vice PM Kairat Kelimbetov are expected to meet to discuss preparation for the sitting.

In 5 days Kazakhstan’s Vice PM Kairat Kelimbetov, co-chairman of the intergovernmental committee for Baikonur issues, would be travelling to Moscow.

According to him, Proton carrier rockets have already been modernized. It is not the first year the two sides have agreed on the number of launches.