1 The Baikonur Cosmodrome was built in the 1___. It was the first cosmodrome in the world, and it is still the largest and the busiest. It is located in the desert steppe in Kazakhstan, about 2__km east of the Aral Sea ? . A lot of space missions are launched from the cosmodrome every year. Both Sputnik 3___ (the Earth's first artificial satellite) and Vostok 1 (the first spacecraft with a man on board) were launched from Gagarin's Start at Baikonur. The first Kazakh astronaut, Toktar Aubakirov, flew from Gagarin's Start in 1991. He was a member of the 4___ expedition to the Mir space station. Another Kazakh astronaut, Talgat Musabayev, flew three missions – in 1994, 1998 and 5___ In 2007, he became the head of the Kazakh space agency KazCosmos. Gagarin's Start, which is named after Yuri Gagarin, is also the launch site for International Space Station (ISS) missions. In 6 ___, the astronaut Aidyn Aimbetov . was selected to fly on the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft to the ISS. This was the 7___ launch from Gagarin's Start. The launch was in 2015, but Aimbetov's journey to space began more than twelve years earlier. In 8___ he was sent to study in Star City in Russia. This is where astronauts are trained. The training isn't easy. 'Flying into space is not like buying a theatre ticket,' Aimbetov said. After 9___ years of training, he returned to Kazakhstan in 2009 to work for KazCosmos. He always wanted to travel into space under the Kazakh flag, and his dream finally came true on 10___ September 2015 7 8 9 10

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