With renewed interest in space travel and satellite launches ..
"Despite the crude and primitive image of the country presented to the world in “Borat,” Kazakhstan has long had an honored place in the space community as home of the Baikonur spaceport from which Sputnik, the first manmade satellite, was launched in 1957, igniting the space race."
"Today it remains the launch site for manned travel to the International
Space Station, including the travel of private citizens who can afford
the modest fee of fifty million dollars for a space adventure."
Photo Credit of a Soyuz landing in the vast steppes of the country
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