Contract Dispute With Kazakhstan Flashes Warnings For Russia’s Legendary Spaceport – Analysis

By Mike Eckel

(RFE/RL) -- For nearly seven decades, Baikonur has been synonymous with the Soviet and Russian space programs.

The sprawling complex on the barren steppe of southern Kazakhstan has hurled hundreds of rockets -- and ballistic missiles -- into space, playing a part in some of history's greatest spaceflight...