[FPSPACE] Marvelous collection of new photos from Baykonur

[James Oberg]

Marvelous photographs of a recent visit to Baykonur (text in Russian):

May 7, 2009 – Roman Prodanov (was there as a child) attended a Progress launch

http://www.prodanov.ru/stories/baikonur-1/   Driving there

http://www.prodanov.ru/stories/baikonur-2/   City

http://www.prodanov.ru/stories/baikonur-3/    Cosmodrome (including museum)



Intriguing photo he took (section 3) at the Gagarin Start of a cast iron ingot

used in the underpinning of the rail tracks. It is dated August 1910!! The

ingot is stamped with the abbreviation R.B.M.O., whatever that meant.



Don't forget that the German 1939 map of Tyuratam already showed a rail line

extending north to where the pad area later was located. It was associated with a

British rail project early in the 1900's. Is it possible that there were stocks of

construction materials left at that location that were later used in pad construction? 





Рельсы, по которым движется транспортер тоже необычные, высокопрофильные. Попадаются рельсы сделанные ещё до революции, есть изготовленные в США и Англии.   Р.Б.М.О. V!! 1910
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