06-02-2005, 05:48 AM
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Happy Birthday Baikonur!
Russia's main space station, the Cosmodrome at Baikonur, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary today, 02-JUN-05.
The first satellite, Sputnik 1, and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, both launched from the site in what is now Kazakhstan.
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