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The superheavy carrier rocket capable of sending a spaceship of up to 20 tons to the moon.

The Russian cargo ship that undocked from the International Space Station to perform tests managed to re-couple Sunday after a failed attempt earlier in the week.

Currently the launching pad is used to launch Soyuz TMA vehicles to the ISS as well as cargo vehicles Progress.

Head of Kazakhstan Space Agency talked about the future development of Baikonur in case Russia moves out to Vostochnyi cosmodrome.

Two Russian space launches from Kazakhstan's Baikonur will be made in the middle of summer and the beginning of autumn.

Head of Baikonur administration believes that making the city a tourist center will increase the risk of terrorist attacks.

We have agreed that Kazakhstan issues a permit to Russia for these unplanned launches: Karim Massimov.

And it is not by accident that by this time Russia plans to build a cosmodrome of its own [Vostochny] in its own territory: National Space Agency’s Strategic Plan for 2011-2015.

Kazakhstan has never banned the coordinated launches. Do not blow it into a political issue: Mussabayev.

Kazakhstan hasn’t prohibited any launches that were concerted in advance: KazKosmos Head.

Plans are there to secure a long-term agreement so that not to obtain a permit for each individual launch.

Russia will keep on cooperating with Kazakhstan at the Baikonur cosmodrome while the Russia-based Vostochnyi cosmodrome is gaining momentum: Russia’s Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.

However friendly Kazakhstan may be, the facility is a rented one. It is a political issue. I don’t mean that Kazakhstan may abruptly “cut off the oxygen” for Russia: Aleksandr Lopatin.

Initially the Baiterek (“poplar tree”) space launch complex was supposed to be constructed at Baikonur in 2013, following the testings of Angara booster rocket.

Should a space launch complex for the Angara booster rocket be constructed in the Far East, it is no point for the Kazakh side to compete with its major strategic partner: National Space Agency Vice head.

11284 military division formed on June 2, 1955 and known as the Fifth science and research training ground of the USSR Military of Defense, will be liquidated by the end of December.

An intercontinental ballistic missile will be launched from Baikonur in November: Vladimir Popovkin, Head of the Federal Space Agency

Initially the Baiterek (“poplar tree”) space launch complex was supposed to be constructed at Baikonur in 2013, following the testings of Angara booster rocket.

Kazakhstan’s Parliamentarians believe the $115 million paid by Russia to rent the Baikonur cosmodrome is no longer enough.

It’s time to sit down and think if we really need the project that is likely not to pay back. The risks are huge: Mr. Mussabayev.