69 years ago the government of the USSR decided to build a cosmodrome on the territory of the Kazakh SSR

69 years ago the government of the USSR decided to build a cosmodrome on the territory of the Kazakh SSR. Today Baikonur is the largest operating cosmodrome in the world. On April 12, 1961 the Vostok-1 rocket was launched from the cosmodrome, a spacecraft that was the first in the world to put a man (Yuri Gagarin) into low-Earth orbit. After the collapse of the USSR in 1994, the Kazakh authorities leased the Baikonur complex to the government of the Russian Federation for a period of 20 years. In January 2004, Putin and Nazarbayev agreed to extend the lease until 2050. Subscribe to [club80289214|@SputnikInt] Источник: Sputnik International