The "Progress MS-14" will go into orbit using the "Soyuz-2.1a" launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome. The launch is scheduled for April 25, 2020. The ship will deliver on board the orbital complex fuel, food, water and other cargoes necessary for the station operation in manned mode.

 Progress MS-14 cargo ship to ISS 25th April 2020 

We have prepared the program of stay for tourists who can see museums of the closed object - the most cosmodrome "Baikonur" and a regime of the same name city. 

Meanwhile, on April 9 is scheduled to launch a manned ship "Union MS-16" with another long expedition. The main crew includes astronauts Roscosmos Nikolai Tikhonov and Andrei Babkin, as well as NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy. For the first time, the ship with the crew will be sent to the ISS with a Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle, which consists entirely of Russian components.

Progress MS-13 (№ 443, according to the classification of NASA Progress 74 or 74P) - a spacecraft transport cargo ship (TGK) series "Progress", which was launched to the ISS December 6, 2019 at 12:34 Moscow time from the launch pad 31 Baikonur and successfully launched into Earth orbit.

  The Baikonur Cosmodrome   is a unique scientific and technical complex. Over the last 50 years it has become the largest cosmodrome in the world. Its area is 7000 sq.km; its length is 75 km from north to south and 90 km from west to east.

The cosmodrome includes 9 launch complexes (15 launch pads); 11 test facilities, 3 fuelling stations for spacecraft and 2 airfields.

At present, Baikonur is open for worldwide cooperation in space exploration, for new generation orbital stations, for manned space, which is the only and largest spaceport in the world.

  Programme for visiting Baikonur facilities  

  1 day  

• Arrival at the hotel "Alma-Ata", the village of Zhosaly from the airport in Kyzylorda. Accommodation at the hotel;
• Transfer to Baikonur city;
• Visit to the Museum of Cosmonautics; 
• Sightseeing tour of the city of Baikonur (sightseeing, monuments and monuments in honor of the outstanding astronauts, models of spacecrafts);
• Lunch in the city;
• Visit to the International Space School named after V.I. Lomonosov; Lunch in the city. Visit to the International Space School named after V.N. Chelomey (excursion around the school, acquaintance with rocket construction, peculiarities of different parts and types of engines, you can also visit inside a real spacecraft);
• Shuttle to the hotel;
• Dinner;

  2 day  

• Breakfast at the hotel;
• Transfer to the cosmodrome;
• Visit to the Museum of Baikonur Cosmodrome, Gagarin and Queen's houses, the orbiting ship "Buran";
• Transfer to the hotel #17 - lunch;
• Transfer to the launch pad "Gagarinsky Start";
• Transfer to the hotel;
• Free time;

  3 day  

• Breakfast at the hotel;
• Transfer to the building number 60;
• Visit to the facility number 60 - the command post of the rocket "Energy", on the way sightseeing tour of the cosmodrome facilities;
• Visit to the launch complex "Zenit";
• Transfer to the launch observation point;
• Observation of the launch;
• Transfer to Kyzylorda;

*The cosmodrome is a regime facility and requires authorization documents.

**The Kazakhstan visa is required for foreign nationals to obtain permits.

***The cost varies from program to program and number of people.

**** There is a special regime of safe operation on the territory of the Cosmodrome and Baikonur city. Entry to and exit from the cosmodrome and the town of Baikonur are carried out through specially equipped checkpoints with special passes. Documents are submitted 28 days in advance, for access and stay in the city and at Baikonur Cosmodrome. To obtain a permit, foreign nationals must have a Kazakhstani visa. 

  The cost includes:  

• Permission documents for staying in the city and at the Baikonur Cosmodrome;
• Provision of a place at the observation point;
• Permissions for photo and video shooting;
• Transfer according to the program;
• Accommodation (double occupancy);
• Meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner and lunch boxes during transfers);
• Excursion service at all facilities;

  Cost does not include:  

• Ticket to Kyzylorda (railway or air);
• Personal expenses;
• Documents should be submitted 28 days in advance to obtain a permit to enter the city and cosmodrome. Program of stay at Baikonur cosmodrome is for 3 days;

*The programme can be adjusted depending on the time of launch of the rocket, time of arrival at Kyzylorda airport or Toretam railway station.