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FROM BATKONUR
TO THE STARS
The Baikonur Cosmodrome was built in the 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 ?__ 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