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 ...

The Russian state commission established to investigate the May 12 collapse of Building 112 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakstan said May 20 that overloading was the main reason for the accident.

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"On April 1, at night, on the territory of the Baikonur spaceport, staff at the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation at the Baikonur complex detained four foreign ...

The Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft is rolled out by train on its way to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 30 ...

Both Sputnik 1 and Vostok 1 were launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in desert of Kazakhstan. It has since served as a launch pad for generations upon generations of spacecraft, including the ...

Russia and Kazakhstan seem headed for a showdown over rocket launches at the Baikonur cosmodrome. Although Moscow and Astana are trying to downplay their differences, both sides seem ready to play ...

The first six second-generation Globalstar mobile communication satellites have arrived at Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and are being readied for a mid-October launch on a Soyuz rocket, ...

MOSCOW, December 26. /TASS/. A Zenit-2SB carrier rocket, carrying Angola's telecommunications satellite Angosat, was launched on Tuesday night from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, an official ...