From Baikonur to the stars 7

The Baikonur Cosmodrome was built in the

• 1950s

• 2001

• 2015

• 2003

It is located in the desert steppe in Kazakhstan, about _____km east of the Aral Sea.

• 200

• 1

• 6

• 2011

Both Sputnik ________ (the Earth’s first artificial satellite) and Vostok 1 (the first spacecraft with a man on board) were launched from Gagarin’s Start at Baikonur.

• 1

• 6

• 2nd

• 200

Toktar Aubakirov was a member of the __________ expedition to the Mir space station

• 1

• 2nd

• 13th

• 500th

Another Kazakh astronaut, Talgat Musabayev, flew three missions – in 1994, 1998 and _____.

• 1950s

• 2011

• 2003

• 2001

In ____, the astronaut Aidyn Aimbetov was selected to fly on the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft to the ISS.

• 2003

• 2011

• 2015

• 1950s

This was the ______ launch from Gagarin’s Start.

• 13th

• 500th

• 2nd

• 1950s

In ______ , he was sent to study in Star City in Russia.

• 2003

• 2015

• 2003

• 1950s

After ______ years of training, he returned to Kazakhstan in 2009 to work for KazCosmos.

• 1

• 200

• 6

• 2003

His dream finally came true on ______September 2015.

• 13th

• 2nd

• 500th

• 1