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Baikonur on Zee

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Building a future space port and Russia in the Amur region is underway. The technique works on multiple platforms, around the clock. Launch complex command center housing residential buildings new neighborhood has become real.First launch rocket is scheduled for 2015.

Amur Oblast. Future cosmodrome "East". In these parts long winter full mistress. The thermometer at minus twenty.But the harsh conditions - not a hindrance. Work is going around the clock. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and Oleg Ostapenko, head of the Russian Space Agency on the eve of the new year under construction Been cosmodrome "East". Special attention to the construction site by chance. "East" for the country - the object of special importance.

"Objectively astronautics will shift to the east. Here Ocean with other space-faring nations, which also have spaceports" - said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.

In today's world more than two dozen spaceports. Only in our eastern neighbors, in China, three of them. But the palm in space launches are still in Russia. Even despite the fact that Russia will have to lease the site at Baikonur.Problem number one - do not lose this position in the future. The need to build a new, modern spaceport, which will be "East" is obvious.

Reference:
- Baikonur "East" - one of the most ambitious projects in Russia. 
- In November 2007, the President signed a decree on the establishment of Russian cosmodrome in the Amur region. 
- From 2008 to 2010 survey conducted and preparatory work. 
- The first stone in the construction of the "Eastern "laid in August 2010. 
- First launch rocket is scheduled for 2015. 
- The first launch of a manned spacecraft to the "East" - in 2018.

A few years ago this place looked wild. Around impassable taiga. And the first stone of the future spaceport. And this December, 2013. Area, will start from the first launch vehicle and "Soyuz-2". Unlike residential buildings during the construction of the spaceport all calculations focused on safety. "We are on-site command post, this will be the senior management staff, which is responsible for the launch." - Said the deputy head of the production of Sergei Kulikov.

One of the main objects of the "Eastern". Future command post. Hence, the first will feature the word "key to start."Walls of the building is not just concrete, reinforced inside - steel mesh. "Here is the wall thickness of 600 mm, plus twill network that will provide security," - said the deputy chief producing Sergei Kulikov.

Thus, during the launching burn tons of fuel per second. Low jet - over three thousand degrees. As they say rocketeers, concrete melts. And although the command center is usually located one kilometer from the launch pad, the load on the structure of the building giant.

Launch complex assembly and test facilities, facilities for preflight training astronauts, oxygen-nitrogen and hydrogen plants, railway, airport - this is only part of large-scale objects, which can then be called in one word - spaceport.

"Any person who takes part in the construction of this object, feels a sense of pride, a certain responsibility," - said the deputy head of FSUE "GUSS" Dalspetsstroy "Paul Buyanovsky.

The first launch of a new cosmodrome is scheduled for late 2015. Rocket "Soyuz-2" will orbit research satellite. Here, with the "East" will start and the latest "Angara". This family of prospective rockets modular. Going as matryoshka, from light to heavy class. Environmentally friendly fuel - oxygen-kerosene. That "Angara" should replace manned "Soyuz" and become the main carrier of astronauts into orbit.

One of the main advantages of the "Eastern" - good location. According to calculations of ballistics, is the first stage falls on the land, and the rest - in the waters of the ocean. Therefore, most of the world and spaceports located near the coast.

New spaceport will be not just a place to run vehicles. Near grow modern space center. Design offices, assembly plants, laboratories for research, television studios for broadcast launch vehicles. "We are in an open field to build new houses for the future of Russian space exploration, everything here is new boilers and other. This is a new beautiful modern city," - said Acting Head of FSUE "Spetsstroytehnologii" Sergey Makarov.

That's for the foundation pit houses. Here dwell those who come to work at the spaceport. Delivery of the first 17 homes - summer 2015. Deputy Prime Minister stressed - it should not be just settlement, and Science City. For which there is already a name - in honor of the founder of the national space industry - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.

"I want to hear it all. When it comes to the launch site, it is, above all, human beings, not machines. People who can go here to go to the East of the country, here we must do all that it was attractive - Research Center, for example - it has to be the center of attraction, "- said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.

And this is a cultural object and a memorial exhibit Future Space Center. This re-entry capsule of the ship, which returned from orbit Russian pilot to smonavt Roman Romanenko. Here on earth Roman Amur already happened. On the natural riches of this region knows firsthand. "There are great places. Fish, mushrooms, berries - all you need cosmonaut that it healthier before flight" - said Romanenko.

Ceremonies held at a monument in the town of Uglegorsk. And once completed the official part, the boys immediately rushed to the unit.

Perhaps this meeting with the astronaut and first encounter with space technology will be fatal for them. And soon this rebyatnya will write new pages in the glorious history of the Russian space.

 

Roskosmos TV studio

 

 

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