Tour Astana-Baikonur, Baikonur Space port
In 1955, the Soviet Union began building a test site for its first ICBMs near the small village of Tyuratam. For this, Tyuratam was conveniently located on the banks of the Syrdarya River and on the Moscow-Tashkent railway line (Zaralskaya railway). It was founded on February 2, 1955. [3] The key designers of the cosmodrome were Russian engineers Sergei Korolyev, Nikolai Pilyugin and Vladimir Barmin.
The name of the landfill was "Research and Testing Range No. 5", abbreviated as NIIP-5. It was named Baikonur to mislead the Western powers. The place of Tyuratam, on the one hand, was strictly classified, on the other hand, the Soviet government wanted to brag about its successes and after the space flight of Yuri Gagarin in 1961 also indicated the place of the rocket launch in public announcements. So then, the location of the Soviet cosmodrome was named Baikonur in the Karaganda region, which had nothing to do with the space program and is located about 320 km northeast of Tyuratam.
- Distance of the route:
1000 km
- Season time:
Best May – Good August
- Best time:
all season Apri – October
- Group size:
1 – 25 person
- Days & nights:
3 days - 2 nights
Tour itinerary:
Morning transfer to Astana city airport with guide and driver.
Check in Flight to Kyzil Orda # KC333 at 07.35 from Astana notrh point – arrival in Kyzylorda at 09.10 local time, meeting at the Korkit Ata airport in Kyzylorda desert city – transfer Kyzil Orda desert point – Josali local village – Baikonur desert of space city (234 km 2 hours).
Check point of Baikonur city, town border formalities, entering, transfer to the city hotel.
Excursion in Baikonur city: museum of history and space port, cosmonaut alley, Yuriy Gagarin monument, Soyuz rocket monument, layout of nuclear rocketCC-17 (Satana ba NATO classification), local market ect. Abay Kunanbaev Kazakh poet monument, first train museum of space port.
By the way we will see special structures with no analogs in the world.
Transfer to Soyuz complex, site # 254, where you will see astronaut report for ready to start.
Later we will see how astronauts sit in a bus and leave to site # 1, visiting site # 254, transfer to helicopter place to see the launch Soyuz TMA, after visit warm place of start complex. Monument of first satellite, transfer to site # 2, museum there, house of Yuri Gagarin.
Baikonur spaceport way to space.
Start excursion to Baikonur spaceport, by the way we will see constructed structures the world’s only, start complex Proton K, Bayterek site # 20, (55 km 1 hour), excursion to Proton complex, from here was launched 100 different rockets, transfer to mounting and testing facility Soyuz (29km), site # 254, visiting site #112, lunch at the complex? After lunch transfer to Gagarin start, site # 1, (8 km? 20 min), excursion to site #1, visiting monument for first satellite, transfer to site #2, visiting space museum (1 km, 10 min) with all artifacts, museum under sky with legendary Buran space shuttle, different space mechanisms, visiting memorial house of Yuriy Gagarin and German Titov and Korolev memorial house. Back to Baikonur city (50 km, 40 min). Free time. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Transfer: Baikonur – Kyzil Orda (234 km).
Flight to Astana CK 334 at 10.10 – arrival in Astana in 11.140 – meeting at the airport end of program.
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