Site No. 1 is the oldest launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome
MOSCOW, December 3. /tass/. Chairman of the Aerospace Committee of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan Baubek Oralmagambetov said that he hopes to sign an intergovernmental agreement with the Russian Federation and the UAE to modernize the Gagarin Launch at Baikonur next year.
"We have another joint project together with the Russian Federation and colleagues from the United Arab Emirates. This is an investment project for the modernization of Gagarin Start. We hope that the signing of the intergovernmental agreement will take place in the first quarter of next year," Oralmagambetov said at the EAEU business forum "Space Integration".
Site No. 1 (Gagarin Launch) is the oldest launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, from which the Vostok spacecraft with the world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board set off on April 12, 1961.
