The Launching of Sputnik 1

Looking south-southeast toward launchpad at Site No.1, 5th Tyuratam Range, Kazakh SSR.

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, 1957

Day of Photograph: October 4, 1957.

The famous launchpad is now know as 'Gagarin's Start'.

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