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WATCH: Photographers Explore Abandoned Shuttles at Baikonur

By Photo of Kendall Russell
Photo: National Geographic.
Photo: National Geographic.

Russian photographer Alexander Kaunas visited an abandoned part of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to unveil its secrets lost to time. In this short video, Kaunas discovers the Soviet Union’s answer to the United States’ space shuttle program during the Cold War.

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