Gagarin's Start

Gagarin's Start
Soyuz TMA-3 is launched from Gagarin's Start
Map
Launch siteBaikonur Cosmodrome
Location45°55′13″N 63°20′32″E / 45.92028°N 63.34222°E / 45.92028; 63.34222
Short nameLC-1/5
OperatorSoviet space program, Roscosmos
Total launches520
Launch pad(s)1
Orbital inclination
range
49° – 99°
Launch history
StatusDecommissioned
Launches520
First launch15 May 1957
R-7
Last launch25 September 2019
Soyuz-FG / Soyuz MS-15
Associated
rockets
R-7
Vostok
Voskhod
Molniya
Soyuz

Gagarin's Start[1] (Russian: Гагаринский старт, Gagarinskiy start), also known as Baikonur Site 1 or Site 1/5 was a launch site at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that was used for the Soviet space program and Roscosmos.

  1. ^ "As Suffredini spoke, a Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft was being hoisted onto Russia's Baikonur launch pad, named "Gagarin's Start" after the first man in space. ", http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-10/13/content_381791.htm , China Daily, 2004-10-13 on Soyuz TMA-5 launch

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