Why Astronauts Have to Go to Kazakhstan to Get into Space

Here's how the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan became the world's top launch site for launching people into space. But Russia's kinda getting tired of it, so they're building their own cosmodrome.

images from NASA, CIA, and Wikimedia Commons via Kremlin.ru (public domain)
satellite imagery footage from Google Earth

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