Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz

Only Twice a Year!

Dates of the Tour***:

October 10-13, 2008
March 23-26, 2009

***Dates of launch are updated each month, on three months forward.

Being accompanied by a Russian Space Agency specialist as a guide, you will be a witness the unforgettable launch of a Soyuz rocket with manned Soyuz spacecraft on Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan), which will deliver a new crew for the International Space Station (ISS). Perhaps one of the members of the crew will be a space tourist. Only twice a year RusAdventures.com gives you such unique opportunity. Open for itself the Baikonur Cosmodrome together with RusAdventures.com.

Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft
ISS, Space mission 17S
Gagarin's Launch Pad
October 12, 2008

Commander Salizhan Sharipov, Russia
engineer, astronaut NASA Michael Fincke, USA
space tourist Richard Garriott, USA

Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft
ISS, Space mission 18S
Gagarin's Launch Pad
March 25, 2009

Commander Gennady Padalka, Russia
engineer, astronaut NASA Michael Barratt, USA
space tourist

Baikonur Launch Tour Itinerary*:

Day one - After arriving in Moscow, you will be picked up by your driver and transported to your Cosmos Hotel. You can have a rest at the Íotel or go and see the Russian capital by evening.

Day two - Three hours after your departure from Domodedovo Airport, you will land on Krainiy Airport or Ybileiniy Airport. Accommodation in Baikonur Hotel. A short city Baikonur tour is possible, if there is enough free time before the launch of the Soyuz spacecraft.

Day three

07:30		Breakfast (Baikonur time)
08:30		We will depart to visit the Universal launch pad/test stand of Energia-Buran system
09:30		Universal launch pad/test stand of Energia-Buran system
10:10		We will depart to visit the Buran space shuttle (Russian space shuttle)
10:30		Buran space shuttle
11:00		We will depart to visit the Official report of crew astronauts of the Soyuz spacecraft
11:20		Official report of crew astronauts of the Soyuz spacecraft
11:40		We will depart to visit the Space Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome
11:50		Space Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome
12:50		We will depart to visit the Soyuz-Progress spacecraft Assembly building
13:00		Soyuz-Progress spacecraft Assembly building
13:50		We will depart for the official viewing site to watch this memorable launch
15:00		Launch of the Soyuz rocket
15:30		Transfer from the launch site to the Baikonur Hotel
16.00		Lunch
17:00		Transfer to Krainiy or Ybileiniy Airport
18:15		Departure from Krainiy (Ybileiniy) Airport on Baikonur to Moscow (Baikonur time)
19:15		Arrival to Moscow (Moscow time)

Day four - Check out from the hotel and departure. Our guide-interpreter will take you to Sheremetyevo International/Domodedovo Airport, Moscow.

*This Program of the Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz coincides with the time of launch of the Soyuz TMA spacecraft, which takes place at 3pm. In case the time of the launch changes the Tour (on the Cosmodrome) will start earlier or later than stated in the Baikonur Launch Tour Itinerary