. On this day in 1955 – June 2nd – the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan became operational.
It was from here that the first satellite to orbit the Earth was launched, and Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the Earth, was launched into space. It is still the world's largest space launch facility.
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