Baikonur cosmodrome tours, visit Baikonur

Our company offers you a unique opportunity – amazing trip to cosmodrome Baikonur during manned and unmanned launches of spacecrafts.

This exclusive program will give you unforgettable impressions and emotions, because you’ll have a chance not only to visit the famous cosmodrome, launch pads, assembly buildings, museums and historical places, but also to witness all the stages of preparation to the launch – roll-out and rising of the rocket, international press-conference of the main and back-up crews, seeing off the cosmonauts to the cosmodrome, space crew ready-to-go official report, pre-launch excitement and finally you’ll observe the historical moment – the launch of the rocket.

Space will become closer and you’ll never forget this magnificent journey!

Baikonur Cosmodrome is a complicated engineering and technical complex, it is the world's oldest and largest operational space launch facility. It is located in the desert steppes of Kazakhstan, about 200 kilometers east of the Aral Sea, north of the Syr Darya river, near Tjuratam railway station.

The cosmodrome occupies the total area of 6717 square kilometers.

It was originally built by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s as the base of operations for its ambitious space program, but fell into decline in the years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. It is leased by the Kazakh government to Russia (currently until 2050) and is managed by the Russian Federal Space Agency.

From this cosmodrome, the first satellite of the World - "Sputnik" was launched (1957), and since the first human space flight of Yuri A. Gagarin on board the spacecraft “Vostok” (12, April 1961) over 1.200 spacecrafts launched into the universe from this port.

Baikonur is fully equipped with facilities for launching both manned and unmanned space vehicles. It supports several generations of Russian spacecraft: Soyuz, Proton, Tsyklon, Dnepr, Zenit and Buran. During the temporary lapse of the United States' Space Shuttle program after the Columbia Disaster in 2003 it played an essential role in operating and resupplying of the International Space Station with Soyuz and Progress spacecraft.

Nowadays cosmodrome Baikonur is open for international cooperation in the sphere of space exploration, for the realization of insertion to the orbit of iinternational orbital complexes of manned cosmonautics new generation.

• Flight Moscow-Baikonur
• Meeting at the airport upon arrival
• Transfer to the hotel, check-in, accommodation
• Spare time, rest

• Breakfast in the hotel
• Transfer to cosmodrome
• Roll-out of the Soyuz Rocket. Following the Soyuz to its launch site
• Watching the raising of the rocket
• Visit to the integration building of "Soyuz" rocket
• Transfer back to the town
• The museum of history of cosmodrome Baikonur
• Visit to the International space school

• Breakfast in the hotel
• Transfer to cosmodrome
• Visit to the integration building of Proton rocket
• Transfer back to the town
• Transfer to hotel “Cosmonaut”
• International press conference with the main- and backup-crew of Soyuz-TMA
• Walk along the avenue of Cosmonauts where trees are planted in the name of Cosmonauts.

• Breakfast in the hotel
• Farewell of the crew from hotel Cosmonaut
• Transfet to cosmodrome
• Space Crew ready-to-go official report
• Celebratory dinner
• Museum of cosmodrome Baikonur
• Gagarin and Korolev historical cottages
• Orbital spaceship Buran
• Transfer to the viewing place for the launch of the Soyuz TMA
• Observation of the launch

• Transfer to the airport
• Flight to Moscow

This is a preliminary program. The time and order of visiting the facilities of cosmodrome Baikonur may be changed because of the specificity and technical features of this complex. Besides, the duration of the program depends on the date and time of the rocket launch, so each program is always adjusted for the particular launch. Please ask our specialists for more details.

• Flights Moscow-Baikonur, Baikonur-Moscow with special Roscosmos flights
• Transport services on the territory of Baikonur
• Accommodation at the hotel (breakfast included)
• All necessary permits for visiting the cosmodrome
• Photo and video shooting permission
• Execution of the program of visiting Baikonur

In addition to the basic program in Baikonur we can offer you the visit to Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (excursions, training on simulators, incentives), the visit to Mission Control Centre, Museum of RSC “Energia”, museum of the Air Force, Memorial museum of cosmonautics

• Russia visa support
• Hotel reservation in Moscow, St.Petersburg, in the Moscow district near Star City, other cities in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan
• City tour in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and other Russia cities with an experienced guide and driver
• Reservation of plane and train tickets round Russia and abroad
• Reservation of car, van or bus in Moscow, St.Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod

• You should send your application at least 45 days before the visit of cosmodrome Baikonur with special questionnaires and copies of passports of all the participants enclosed.
• Both children and adults can take part in the program
• The program should be paid 20 days in advance according to the agreement and invoice.

You will find all the necessary documents here

For more information about the organization of the program contact to our specialists
Phone:
(495) 506-32-23
(495) 662-45-99
E-mail: info@starcity-tours.ru