Baikonur, the huge cosmodrome in the unfriendly land of Kazakistan has turned 50-years old. Originally built as military spaceport for intercontinental ballistic missiles testing, it has witnessed almost 5.500 lift-offs among missiles, probes and spacecraft. Moreover 130 astronauts left from here. The structure that stretches over an area of 7.000 square km, is equipped with 15 loading ramps, 470 km...