Baikonur Tour: All of Cosmodrome
 
Name: Buran space shuttle      Maximum weight: 231,533 lbs / 105 t
Length: 119.2 ft / 36,37 m Payload weight: 66.1 lbs / 30 t
Body width: 18.02 ft / 5,5 m Crew: 2 - 10 people
Height: 53.5 ft / 16,35 m Date of launch: November 15, 1988

Baikonur Tour Itinerary:

   Day one (monday) - After arriving in Moscow, you will be picked up by your driver and transported to your 4-star luxury Cosmos Hotel.

   Day two (tuesday) - Your flight from Moscow to Baikonur departs in the morning. You will be accommodated at Baikonur Hotel. This is the place where the official delegations come for staying on Baikonur Cosmodrome (Baikonur:Map and Plan), the second place is Cosmonaut Hotel, where the cosmonauts undergo their pre-launch training.

   Day three (wednesday) - Today you will visit - Soyuz, the oldest complex at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The most spectacular events in the world's space flight history are associated with the complex activity. You will visit one of the Assembly building vehicle, where the Soyuz rocket, the manned Soyuz TMA spacecraft or unmanned Progress - M spacecraft are prepared for launch; the Soyuz rocket Launch pad (Gagarin's Start), from which more than 400 vehicles have been launched, and also the Control center, where the command "Key for launch" were given for the first time in the world; memorial complex First sputnik; Space museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

   Day four (thursday) - You will observe Proton rocket that is the best in the world among rockets in its class. Getting up to it’s highest point (Launch Tower) where the Сosmodrome’s disposition is like on your hand. After that you are lowered in a underground Control center, where can glance in pereckop, from which at missile launch of the launcher supervise of development of a situation on start. You will visit the unique "clean hall" (Assembly building vehicle), the largest and the only such facility in the world, the volume of which is more than 523,000 yard3 / 400 000 m3. In the afternoon you will see all that has left from the launch silos of the Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles destroyed under the terms of SALT-1/2.

   Day five (friday) - Early in the morning you send on inspection of a Universal launch pad/test stand of Energia rocket (Service and Launch Towers), Transporter-erector of the Energia rocket and Buran space shuttle (Russian space shuttle). Creation of a Russian Energia rocket and Buran space shuttle - important part of the Soviet/Russian Space Program. Baikonur Tour: City. Departure from Baikonur Cosmodrome.

   Day six (saturday) - Check out and departure day from Russia. Your guide will accompany you to the Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow.


Details:

The price of this Baikonur Tour is given for group of 3 person. Please note that the price for this Tour is a group price: the more tourists in the group you have, the lower the price for each tourist you will be charged. Therefore, please contact us to specify the price for the actual group of tourists or for one tourist.

RusAdventures reserves the right to change the schedule of visits to the technical and launch complexes at the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan).

You must pay 50% of the price of the Baikonur Tour as soon as you book it. This sum should be paid not late than 45 days before the beginning of the Tour. If you cancel your reservation on the Tour during the period of between 45 and 30 days before the beginning of the Baikonur Tour, we will be refund you the sum of your first payment minus a 20% cancellation fee. We ask you to make the second payment not late 30 days before the beginning of the Tour. Cancellation of your participation in the Tour less than 30 days before it is scheduled to begin will result in a loss of 100% of the price of the Baikonur Tour.

Please, learn about other conditions, terms and details the reservation of this Baikonur Tour.

 

Options:


Please, contact RusAdventures before your arrival in Russia if you are interested in:

  • visit to the Zenit rocket Assembly building and on the Zenit rocket Launch Pad
  • visit to the Dynamic Vertical Tests of the Energia rocket
  • visit of a place of the largest accident in history of the Baikonur Cosmodrome
  • excursion to the Space Museum in the Baikonur City
  • excursions to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center in Star City (Mocsow) and/or Institute for Biomedical Problems (IMBP) and/or russian Mission Control Center (before Baikonur Tour or after returning from the Baikonur)
  • excursion to the Main Space Museum in Russia and/or Museum Space Suits (before Baikonur Tour or after returning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome)
  • VIP immigration customs processing (or Fast-Track) for arrival/departure at Sheremetyevo
  • accommodation in another Moscow Hotel (for example, Marco Polo Presnja Hotel, Radisson SAS Slavyanskaya Hotel, Renaissance Moscow Hotel or Marriot Grand Hotel), if the Cosmos Hotel does not suit you
  • one or several extra days staying in Moscow (before the flight to the Baikonur Cosmodrome or after returning from the Baikonur) with or without excursions in Moscow and the Moscow Region (at your choice)
     
 

Baikonur Tour: All of Cosmodrome



You won't see anything like it anywhere else

Specialists, amateurs and fans of space technologies will deservedly appreciate this Tour. After this Tour you will be able to claim: "I have seen everything at Baikonur Cosmodrome; I know everything about the Cosmodrome". You can see the oldest and the largest Baikonur Cosmodrome: all the Russian rockets, all the Launch pads, all the Assembly building vehicles, which can be seen and touched at the Cosmodrome, will be accessible to you. Comfortable rooms and excellent service in the Hotel, efficient labour organization as it admitted in the space industry, the heads and specialists of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, who are in love with space, will make your staying there unforgettable.


$ 2,550.00 per person   
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Dates:

June 18-23, 2007
July 9-14, 2007
August 6-11, 2007

*The launch dates are updated each month, a number of 23 for three months forward


This Baikonur Tour includes:

  • visa support (double Russian visa) and entry permit for the Baikonur and Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
  • meeting/departure at Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow
  • group transfers between airport and Cosmos Hotel (standard single room)
  • two night stays with breakfast at a Cosmos Hotel (before and after Baikonur Tour)
  • group transfers between Cosmos Hotel and Domodedovo/Vnukovo Airport
  • air transfers from Moscow to Baikonur and Baikonur to Moscow (business class)
  • three night stays with breakfast at a Baikonur Hotel (standard single room)
  • VIP Tour to the Baikonur Cosmodrome
  • group transfers between Airport and Baikonur Hotel, between Baikonur Hotel and Assembly building vehicles, rocket Launch pads
  • all meals at the Baikonur Cosmodrome
  • a guide-interpreter (English, German, French)
  • a representative of the Baikonur Cosmodrome as an escort (compulsory)
  • photo and video permit
 
Baikonur Tour: All of Cosmodrome

A group of tourists from Germany, during the All of Baikonur Cosmodrome Tour saw the main Technical and Launch complexes at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

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