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...n = Baikonur Cosmodrome's "[[Gagarin's Start]]" [[Soyuz (rocket family)|Soyuz]] [[launch pad]] prior to the rollout of [[Soyuz TMA-13]], 10 ...sia/facility/baikonur.htm|website=FAS.org|publisher=Federation of American Scientists (FAS)|accessdate=19 July 2014}}</ref> The spaceport is located in the [[Kaz

| known_for = Leading test pilot missile complexes [[S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia|OKB-1]] | occupation = Soviet and Russian [[rocket]] scientist and engineer

...hose launch vehicle adaptations are known as Cosmos, [[Tsyklon]], [[Dnepr (rocket)|Dnepr]] respectively are still in use today. Yangel narrowly avoided death * "Testing of rocket and space technology - the business of my life" Events and facts - [[Arkady

|occupation = Rocket engineer, Chief Designer of the [[Soviet space program]] ...r 1906}} – 14 January 1966) worked as the lead [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[rocket]] [[engineer]] and spacecraft designer during the [[Space Race]] between th

...to 2012, a secret joint operation of Kazakh, Russian, and American nuclear scientists and engineers secured the waste plutonium in the tunnels of the mountains.< ...that the mysterious URDF-3 was tasked with researching a [[nuclear thermal rocket]] similar to the US's [[NERVA]].<ref>Richelson, Jefferey, ''The Wizards of