Day one - After arriving in Moscow, you will be picked up by your driver and transported to your Cosmos Hotel. You can have a rest at the Нotel or go and see the Russian capital by evening.

   Day two - Three hours after your departure from Domodedovo Airport, you will land on Krainiy Airport or Ybileiniy Airport (Baikonur: Map and Plan). Accommodation in Baikonur Hotel. After short rest excursion on Baikonur (Baikonur Tour: City) is possible, if there is enough free time before the launch of the Soyuz spacecraft.

   Day three

07:30		Breakfast (Baikonur time)
08:30		We will depart to visit the Universal launch pad/test stand of Energia-Buran system
09:30		Universal launch pad/test stand of Energia-Buran system
10:10		We will depart to visit the Buran space shuttle (Russian space shuttle)
10:30		Buran space shuttle
11:00		We will depart to visit the Official report of crew astronauts of the Soyuz spacecraft
11:20		Official report of crew astronauts of the Soyuz spacecraft
11:40		We will depart to visit the Space Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome
11:50		Space Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome
12:50		We will depart to visit the Soyuz-Progress spacecraft Assembly building
13:00		Soyuz-Progress spacecraft Assembly building
13:50		We will depart for the official viewing site to watch this memorable launch
15:00		Launch of the Soyuz rocket
15:30		Transfer from the launch site to the Baikonur Hotel
16.00		Lunch
17:00		Transfer to Krainiy or Ybileiniy Airport
18:15		Departure from Krainiy (Ybileiniy) Airport on Baikonur to Moscow (Baikonur time)
19:15		Arrival to Moscow (Moscow time)

   Day four - Check out and departure day from Russia. Our guide-interpreter will take you to Sheremetyevo International/Domodedovo Airport, Moscow.

*This Program of the Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz coincides with the time of launch of the Soyuz TMA spacecraft, which takes place at 3pm. In case the time of the launch changes the Tour (on the Cosmodrome) will start earlier or later than stated in the Baikonur Launch Tour Itinerary.

**The price of Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz given for group of at least 35 person. Please note that the price for this Baikonur Launch Tour is a group price: the more tourists in the group, the lower the price for each tourist. Therefore, please contact us to specify the price for the actual group of tourists or for one tourist.

RusAdventures reserves the right to change the schedule of visits to the technical and launch complexes of the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) according to the launch time of Soyuz rocket with Soyuz spacecraft.

You must pay 50% of the price of Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz as soon as you have reserved it. This sum should be paid not later than 45 days before the beginning of this Baikonur Launch Tour. If you cancel your reservation of this Baikonur Tour during the period of between 45 and 30 days before the beginning of the Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz, we shall return your first payment minus a 20% penalty. We ask you to make the second payment not later than for 30 days before the beginning of this Baikonur Launch Tour. Cancellation of your participation less than 30 days prior to the beginning of Baikonur Launch Tour will lead to loss of 100% of price of Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz.

You have to send passport information not later than 45 days before your arrival in Russia. Please, learn about other conditions, terms and details the reservation and payment of Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz.

Please, contact RusAdventures before Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz if you are interested in:

• tours to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City and/or Space Museum of the Star City (before Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz or after returning from this Baikonur Launch Tour)
• tour to the Russian Mission Control Center (before Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz or after returning from this Baikonur Launch Tour)
• tour to the Main Space Museum of Russia (before Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz or after returning from this Baikonur Launch Tour)
• tour to the Museum Space Suits (before Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz or after returning from Baikonur Launch Tour and also
• VIP immigration customs processing (or Fast-Track) for arrival/departure at Sheremetyevo International/Domodedovo Airport (Moscow)
• accommodation in another Moscow Hotel. For example, Marco Polo Presnja Hotel, Radisson SAS Slavyanskaya Hotel, Renaissance Moscow Hotel, Marriot Grand Hotel) or others, if the Cosmos Hotel does not suit you
• one or several extra days staying in Moscow (before this Baikonur Launch Tour or after returning from the Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz) with or without tours in Moscow and/or Moscow Region (at your choice)

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Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz

Being accompanied by a Russian Space Agency specialist as a guide, you will be a witness the unforgettable launch of a Soyuz rocket with manned Soyuz spacecraft on Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan), which will deliver a new crew for the International Space Station (ISS). Perhaps one of the members of the crew will be a space tourist. Only twice a year RusAdventures.com gives you unique opportunity to participants of Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz. Open for itself the Baikonur Cosmodrome together with RusAdventures.com.

Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft
ISS, Space mission 18S
Gagarin's Launch Pad
March 25, 2009

Commander Gennady Padalka, Russia
astronaut NASA Michael Barratt, USA
space tourist Nick Halik, Australia

Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft
ISS, Space mission 19S
Gagarin's Launch Pad
May 25, 2009

Commander Roman Romanenko, Russia
astronaut ESA Frank De Winne, Belgium
astronaut CSA Robert Thirsk, Canada

Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft
ISS, Space mission 20S
Gagarin's Launch Pad
October 1, 2009

 
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March 23-26, 2009
May 21-26, 2009

***Dates of launch are updated each month, on three months forward.

• visa support (double Russian visa), entry permit for the Baikonur City and Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
• meeting/departure at Sheremetyevo International/Domodedovo Airport, Moscow
• transfers between Airport and Cosmos Hotel 4* (standard single room)
• two night stays with breakfast at a Cosmos Hotel (before Baikonur Launch Tour and after Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz)
• transfers between Cosmos Hotel and Domodedovo Airport, Moscow
• air transfers from Moscow to Baikonur and from Baikonur to Moscow
• transfers between Baikonur Airport and Baikonur Hotel
• one night stays with breakfast at a Baikonur Hotel (standard single room)
• Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz, including supervision over of launch of Soyuz rocket
• transfers between Baikonur Hotel and Assembly building vehicle, Launch Pads, Space Museum and other space objects of the Baikonur City
• all meals at the Baikonur Cosmodrome
• guide-interpreter (English, German, French)
• representative of the Baikonur Cosmodrome as an escort
• your photographing and video shooting in Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz
• personal certification of the participant of Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz

A group of tourists from the Space Adventures Ltd. with the help of RusAdventures saw the launch of the Soyuz TMA spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz).

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