Today birthday of the first spaceport in the world

The Baikonur Cosmodrome is founded in 1955 the First and still the largest Baikonur Cosmodrome celebrates the 68th birthday of the Photo: Wikimedia Commons the Baikonur Spaceport — this legendary place which serves nearly 70 years as a starting point for a set of space missions. Here historical flight Youri Alekseevich Gagarin by the ship "East" began, the first artificial satellites of Earth, the ships "Rising" and "Union", and also space stations here are started. The Baikonur spaceport — is the huge territory occupying the space in 7 thousand square kilometers in which the preparatory are located...