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Stories about: Baikonur

Soyuz Rocket Ready to Take the First Korean Astronaut into Space Yesterday, the Russian engineers from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan rolled out the Soyuz rocket, which is supposed to carry two Russian cosmonauts and the first South Korean astronaut to the International Space Station. The 50-meter Soyuz spacecraft will take off from the same launch pad used to send a man in... 7 April 2008 05:34 GMT Watch Out, It's Raining Rocket Parts The Russian Roskosmos agency was recently sued by an inhabitant of Russia's Altai region for 42,000 US dollars, in compensation for the fact that a 3 meters piece of metal from one of its space rockets fell on his property, near the outdoor toilet. Shepherd Boris Urmatov lives in a area which is located right in... 27 March 2008 06:45 GMT