Visiting And Shopping Inside And Outside The Former Soviet Union.

[Soviet]

I took the train from Moscow to Volgograd.

[Auke]

Nice video. I will be driving to Volgograd in two weeks... I hope the Motherland statue is still erect by then

[Koba64]

That's my kinda holiday!

[Christophe]

#1 Medal 50 Years of Baikonur Cosmodrome.
#4 Other badge for the 50 Years of Baikonur.
#5 Award of Tsenki.
TsENKI FSUE is the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Center for Exploitation of Space Ground-Based Infrastructure Facilities”
#6 Document
#7 Another Tsenki award.
#8 Another Tsenki award...
#9 Another one ...
#10 And another one ...
#11 Last one ... (sorry for the bad quality of the pic...)
#12 Medal of Nesterenko.

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[Christophe]

Display of the Museum..

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[rocketscientist]

I just discover with pleasure and interest that some of the fellows friends from the forum have been in Baikonur for participating to Launch Operations.

Maybe we have been working together, since I did 4 launch campaigns of EU satellites from the Cosmodrome since my first visit to the sire on March 2001.

The first launch was with Proton, all others with Soyuz. In the picture we are smiling to the camera from the Rosaviacosmos's pad the day of rocket erection.

You will easily recognize myself in the picture: I wear a red jacket.

The second picture shows the Soyuz Pad at site 36, with rocket ready about at L-3 days. I took this picture during a break in the 12-hours long countdown rehearsal.

[Christophe]

Hi Rocketscientist,

Nice pics. :thumbsup Unfortunately I doubt we ever met or work together in Baikonur, as the Proton launch of April was my first launch, and I was invited there as a guest. This was a great experience for me, and really a child's dream come true !!

Cheers.

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Pic : © Christophe – ChR Collection

[Christophe]

#1-5 Space badges. Close-up pics possible if you wish...
#6-10 Gagarin's house

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[Christophe]

#1-2 Launch pads.
#3-4 Proton launch area.
#5 Proton Club, the control center for the launch.

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Pics : © Christophe – ChR Collection

[Christophe]

#1-2 Baikonur market.
#3-6 Baikonur streets...
#7 On the way back to Moscow, accompanied by an Antonov 224...

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