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Thursday, December 5, 2013

World's Largest Space-Launch Center

Did you ever heard about world's largest space-launch center Baikonur Cosmodrome? Baikonur is the site of several historic spaceflights. Many historic flights lifted off from Baikonur. The first man-made satellite, Sputnik 1, on 4 October 1957. the first spacecraft to travel close to the Moon, Luna 1, on 2 January 1959. The first manned orbital flight by Yuri Gagarin on 12 April 1961.  The flight of the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, in 1963. 14 cosmonauts of 13 other nations, such as Czechoslovakia, East Germany, India and France, started their historic journeys from here as well under the Inter cosmos program. But there was an accident in 1960, a prototype R-16 ICBM exploded before launch, killing over 100 people. Even though there was accidents many people visit Baikonur because inside of Baikonur Cosmodrome there is fascinating rooms and stuff to look. I would like to visit Baikonur Cosmodrome one day when I’m a grown up. Would you guys visit this space-launch center?
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  1. AnonymousDecember 6, 2013 at 9:38 AM

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  2. AnonymousDecember 6, 2013 at 9:43 AM

    Baikonur has tons of history with space. I am very surprised th

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  3. Tom HopperDecember 7, 2013 at 5:21 PM

    So Min, please use your own words. This comes directly from the Wikipedia site.

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