Baikonur tour 2021

First Day

• Checking in for the “Moscow-Kyzylorda” flight.
• Departure from Moscow
• Arrival to the “Korkyt-Ata” airport, Kyzylorda town. Going through custom procedures and filling in migration cards. The transfer bus picks up at the airport parking lot
• Transfer to the Baikonur town
• Meeting with an accompanying employee of a security service
• Transfer to the Seven Winds hotel, checking in
• Lunch in a Seven Winds hotel (paid on your own)
• Leisure time in the hotel
• Transfer to the launching site num. 2.
• Tour to the Museum of history of the Baikonur spaceport
• Transfer back to the Seven Winds hotel, dinner (paid on your own), leisure time, rest

Second day

• Breakfast at the Seven Winds hotel (included in a price of the tour).
• Departure from the Seven Winds hotel.
• Transfer to the launch site num. 112.
• Watching the “Souyz-MS” carrier rocket transportation.
• Arrival to the railway hub of the launch site num. 1 (“Gagarin launch”).
• Watching the transportation of the “Souyz MS“ carrier rocket from a railway hub to the launching site for its further installation.
• Transfer to the launching site num. 1 (“Gagarin launch”).
• “Gagarin launch“ site visit, watching installation of the rocket from a safe distance, then visiting the monument of the first artificial Earth satellite.
• Transfer to the Seven Winds hotel, checking in
• Lunch in a hotel restaurant (paid on your own)
• Transfer to the launch site num. 81 or num. 200 (launching pad for “Proton” rocket carrier).
• Visiting launching pad for “Proton” rocket carrier.
• Transfer to the launch site num. 250A (control center for “Energia-Buran” ship).
• Visiting the control center for “Energia-Buran” ship (on this site you will see control center for “Energia-Buran” rocket carrier which is an underground bunker. From the landing pad for “Energia Buran” the only one launch of legendary “Buran” spaceship was conducted).
• Transfer to the launching site num. 45 (launching pad for “Zenith” rocket carrier) and launching site num. 41 (the memorial in honor to died engineers and workers who participated in rocket launches).
• Attending the “Zenith” launching pad and the memorial
• Transfer to the Seven Winds hotel.
• Dinner in the restaurant of the Seven Winds hotel (paid on your own), leisure time, rest.

Third day

• Breakfast at the Seven Winds hotel.
• Departure from the Seven Winds hotel.
• Transfer to the Baikonur town.
• Sightseeing tour over the Baikonur town (you will learn a history of town’s and spaceport foundation, Kazakhstan culture and traditions, attend monuments and memorials) visiting Saint Martyr George Cathedral.
• Leisure time in the town, lunch in a café or market shopping.
• Lunch in a restaurant (paid on your own).
• Transfer to the International Space School.
• International Space School tour (here you will get unforgettable impressions of talking with School’s principal, its teachers and students. You will watch a documentary in one of the classrooms, take photos in an “Orlan” space suit, visit a space capsule, etc.)
• Transfer back to the Seven Winds hotel,
• Dinner in a hotel restaurant (on your own), leisure time, rest

Fourth day

• Breakfast at the Seven Winds hotel
• Transfer from the Seven Winds hotel to Cosmonaut hotel (if confirmed by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre)
• Seeing off cosmonauts from the Cosmonaut hotel (if confirmed by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre)
• A walk through the territory of the Cosmonaut hotel, visiting the legendary Alley of Heroes (if confirmed by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre)
• Leisure time in Baikonur town or in Seven Winds hotel
• Watching the spacecraft crew reports to the chairman of the state committee
• Visiting the Museum of history of the Baikonur spaceport (while waiting for the launch of Soyuz rocket you can grab a bite in the museum’s cafeteria and buy some souvenirs in a souvenir shop)
• Transfer to observation post.
• Watching the launch of a “Souyz MS” rocket carrier

Fifth day

• Breakfast at the Seven Winds hotel
• Leaving the hotel with belongings. Transfer to the Baikonur town
• Baikonur town history museum tour
• Leisure time in the Baikonur town
• Transfer to the Krayniy airport
• Registration to the “Baikonur-Moscow” flight
• Departure to Moscow

* We reserve the right to make changes to the tour’s program.

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If you want to spend more days in Russia and to see more famous places of space exploration we will do our best to arrange it:

• Tour in the GCTC. You will see the complex of various technical means (TMCT), which are used on all stages of cosmonauts' training for the flights and during the preflight events, such as Space flight conditions imitators (Hydrolab, Centrifuges, Pressure Chambers, Planetarium), Manned Space Vehicle Simulators, MSV and Onboard Systems Training Mockups, Flight Training Planes, Post Landing Activity Preparation Means
• Tour in Russian Cosmonaut museum (Moscow)
• Tour in Mission Control Center (Korolev city)
• Tour in The Central Air Force Museum (Monino)
• Tour in The State Museum of the history of cosmonautics named by K.E. Tsiolkovsky (Kaluga)