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    serves as the inspiration for a location in the 2014 videogame Destiny. Baikonour Cosmodrome and its surroundings serve as the setting of the 2022 French...
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    Baikonur (redirect from Baikonour)
    Baikonur (Kazakh: Байқоңыр, Baiqoñyr, Kazakh pronunciation: [bɑjqoŋəɾ]; Russian: Байконур, romanized: Baykonur, [bəjkɐˈnur]), formerly known as Leninsk...
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    Rocket Soyuz: Soyuz-U Apollo: Saturn IB (SA-210) Launch site Soyuz: Baikonour, Site 1/5 Apollo: Kennedy, LC-39B End of mission Recovered by Soyuz: Soviet...
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    an uncrewed Soviet space probe of the Phobos Program launched from the Baikonour launch facility on 7 July 1988. Its intended mission was to explore Mars...
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    seat would not have enough time to deploy its parachute. LC-1 at the Baikonour Cosmodrome had netting placed around it to catch the descent module should...
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    launched by Zenit-2. Two launch facilities were constructed for the Zenit at Baikonour, however the second was only ever used twice. On October 4, 1990, an attempted...
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  • Launch date 10 December 2001, 17:19:00 UTC Rocket Zenit-2 Launch site Baikonour, Site 45 End of mission Last contact 2012 Orbital parameters Reference system...
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    cosmonaut Sergey Volkov and NASA astronaut Michael Fossum lifted off from the Baikonour Cosmodrome on 7 June 2011. Carrying the same crew, Soyuz TMA-02M undocked...
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    carrying Gidzenko, cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev and Reiter lifted off from the Baikonour cosmodrome on September 3, 1995, at 9:00 UTC. After a two-day autonomous...
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    disasters shortly after liftoff when the booster crashed near LC-39 at Baikonour, ending a 30-year unbroken stretch without a first stage failure; all...
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