Cosmonautics. Baikonur tourist (2017)

Baikonur is the largest cosmodrome in the world.

All types of Russian missiles were launched from here.

The famous Gagarin launch is also located here, and cosmonauts are still going into orbit from this site No. 1. Now Baikonur is opening in a new capacity - the center of technological tourism.

Previously, it was impossible to get here, because the cosmodrome was a military and therefore completely closed object, even soldiers and officers who were going here for service did not know where they were going until the last moment.

The history of not only world cosmonautics, but also big politics was created here.

The first foreigner to visit Baikonur was Charles de Gaulle.

Today, a lot of people from different countries are eager to visit the cosmodrome during the launch of the spacecraft in order to see it not during the Internet broadcast, but with their own eyes.

In addition, tourists have the opportunity to visit the main museum of cosmonautics, the house of Korolev and Gagarin, and if they are lucky, chat with one of the cosmonauts.

Interviews: Vladimir Yaropolov, Frank De Vinne, Rano Juraeva, Yuri Makarov, as well as foreign tourists Cyril Fournier, Sarah Jane Pell, Andreas Beitelspacher and aviation and space tourism specialist Stefania Nikolaeva.