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Baikonur 2010
Russia
TMA-20 Launch
Soyuz VAB
Cosmodrome Museum
Buran
Baikonur City
A trip to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to see the
Soyuz TMA-20 launch
on December 15th 2010.
Syr Darya & Kazakhstan
From our Ural Air TU 154M
Enterering Baikonur City
Home of cosmonauts and horse drawn carts.
TMA-20 Launch
TMA-20 Logo
Waiting for the Cosmonauts
Five tourists, several guides, and a driver.
The Cosmonauts report "Ready!"
Soyuz TMA-20
Soyuz TMA-20
Soyuz TMA-20 Launch:
Ready...
Soyuz TMA-20 Launch:
Going...
Soyuz TMA-20 Launch:
Going...
Soyuz TMA-20 Launch:
Gone.
Gagarin Pad, post-Launch
Scotsman at Gagarin Pad
Soyuz Transporter
Sputnik Memorial
Soyuz VAB
Inside the Soyuz Vehicle Assembly Building at Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Stage 1 booster
Stage 1 booster closeup
Soyuz Stage1+2.
Scotsman with assembled Soyuz.
Cosmodrome Museum
Gagarin Bust
Outside the Museum of the Baikonur Cosmodrome
Sample cosmonaut seat
Scotsman in a Cosmonaut visor
A backup Spuntnik
Cosmonaut's cottage
Where Gagarin stayed pre-launch.
Office in Korolev's cottage.
Buran
Buran was the Soviet space shuttle. It made one successful unmanned flight in 1988 and then was a victim of the USSR's dissolution.
Buran mockup
Buran Mockup
Buran interior, from cockpit.
Scotsman at Buran controls
Buran transporter
Buran Transporter
Buran launch gantry
On the Buran pad.
Guide (in red) Buran expert (in blue)
High volume water hoses
used to cool full system tests
Buran pad fire pit
Baikonur City
Baikonur Lenin
From the Hotel Tsentralnaya
Baikonur lenin
Getting ready to welcome in 2011.
Korolev Bust
City Emblem
Hotel Tsentralnaya
"Gagarin Pavillion"
View from Gagarin's Pavillion
Soyuz Monument
A slumbering God.
Scotsman at Soyuz Monument
Nedelin Memorial
We left flowers.
Space School: Rocket class
Space School: Rocket engines
Space School: Reentry Capsule
Ice on the Syr Darya
(aka the Jaxartes)
Frenchman with model Soyuz
After an arduous quest.
"The Fisherman"
Baikonur City Entrance
Baikonur terrain
Scrubby semi-desert
Russia