Read the article for a brief history of the Baikonur spaceport and observations ... are all on land in the sparsely inhabited Kazakhstan steppe (flat grasslands). According to russianspaceweb.com ...

the arid steppe was further south — and thus closer to the equator — than most of Russia, shortening the journey to the thermosphere the ISS inhabits. The Baikonur Cosmodrome played a central ...

The protagonist researcher Dmytro Gromov and the cameraman Angel Angelov are embarking on a dangerous mission both are planning to cross about 50 km of inhospitable desert in order to illegally ...

Almost a quarter of the country's vast territory is steppe. Around Baikonur, on the north side ... the creeping desert is particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic factors and climatic stress.

Read the article for a brief history of the Baikonur spaceport and observations from the photographer’s fifteen visits to observe Soyuz landings and the extreme separation between the local ...