Gagarin's Start
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Gagarin's Start also known as Baikonur Site 1 or Site 1/5 is a retired launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that was used by the Soviet space program and Roscosmos.
Soyuz TMA-3 is launched from Gagarin's Start
Soyuz TMA-16 launches from Gagarin's Start on 30 September 2009, on its way to the International Space Station.
Sunrise at the launch pad prior to the rollout of Soyuz TMA-13, 10 October 2008.
Progress M-13M launches on 30 October 2011.
Yuri Gagarin
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first person to journey into outer space during the first successful crewed spaceflight. He was launched from the Baikonur Cos
Gagarin's Start
…Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that was used by the Soviet space program and Roscosmos. The launchpad for the world's first human spaceflight made by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 in 1961, the site was referred to as Site No.1 (Площадка №1, Ploshchadka No. 1) as the first one of its kind. It is also sometimes referred…
Gagarin in 1963
Gagarin family home in Klushino
Gagarin as an air cadet in the Saratov flying club c. 1954
Gagarin's Vostok 3KA capsule and an effigy of him on display at the RKK Energiya museum in 2010