The septuagenarian space port proves as reliable as ever, but geopolitics and funding mean that its future at the forefront ...

Russia’s attempt at building a space plane ... flew again and was instead placed in storage on the outskirts of the Baikonur Cosmodrome until it was destroyed when the roof collapsed in the ...

Soviet engineers began work on large rockets in the 1930s. In May 1955, work began on the Baikonur launch site in central Asia. In August-1957, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile ...