During what would become the most dramatic month in space history, an apocalyptic explosion of near-nuclear magnitude took ...

More poleward launch sites, such as northern Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome, offer different advantages. The farther north or ...

PARIS — The Russian-Ukrainian Dnepr rocket, whose operations were moved from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2006 to a new site in Russia to avoid conflicts with authorities in Kazakhstan and ...

Parliament in Kazakhstan has approved an extension on Russia’s lease on the Baikonur space launch facility through to 2050, but with added conditions to limit dangers to the environment. Presenting ...

For nearly seven decades, Baikonur has been synonymous with the Soviet and Russian space programs. The sprawling complex on the barren steppe of southern Kazakhstan has hurled hundreds of rockets -- ...

The mayor of Baikonur, the city in Kazakhstan that Russia is leasing along with the cosmodrome of the same name, has signed a decree authorizing one-time payments of 260,000 rubles (about $3,500) to ...

As liftoff nears for the first astronauts launched from U.S. soil since 2011, we take a look at the Soviet-built cosmodrome that sent more than a dozen NASA astronauts into orbit. 1 A U.S. spy-plane ...

Members of the Mars Express project and industrial teams travelled to the steppes of Kazakhstan last month to inspect the Baikonur cosmodrome where Mars Express will be launched on board a ...

Emirati astronauts Hazzaa Al Mansoori and Sultan Al Neyadi raised the UAE flag during the flag-raising ceremony that was held for the countries participating in the mission – UAE, Russia, and US. Oleg ...

All activity stops in the vicinity of a Soyuz rocket after the dog walks. The dog will walk on a lot of occasions, but especially the day the rocket rolls out to the pad. The two kilometer (1.25 mi.) ...

A trio of engineers bound for the International Space Station is in orbit around the Earth after blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz TMA-20 spaceship took off just after ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...