9 years ago
Things Are Not Going Well At Russia's New Spaceport
"I will not allow sabotage, I'll simply rip heads off," is never something you want your boss to say. Russia is in the process of building its first new cosmodrome—or rocket launch site—since the fall of the USSR. And it's a mess. For the past two decades, Russia's used the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in current-day Kazakhstan, which dates back to the very earliest days of Russian space flight. But not only is that launch site aging, it's also a political bee in Russia's bonnet.
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