{"id":15159,"date":"2025-09-11T20:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/15159\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T20:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:59:20","slug":"kazakhstan-reimagines-soviet-era-space-launch-sites-as-tourist-getaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/15159\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan reimagines Soviet-era space launch sites as tourist getaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  By&amp;nbspBotagoz Marabai\n<\/p>\n<p>\n                    Published on                 10\/09\/2025 &#8211; 15:00 GMT+2<br \/>\n                \u2022Updated<br \/>\n                                     15:12\n                                        <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>A cosmic journey awaits visitors to Kazakhstan\u2019s southern steppes \u2013 where a spaceport rich in history and mysticism is being transformed into a vibrant tourism ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>While Russia continues to lease Baikonur Cosmodrome, it has so far returned over 50 decommissioned facilities to Kazakhstan, which the government plans to convert to a year-round tourism facility to attract visitors \u2013 not just for rocket launches.<\/p>\n<p>Visitor infrastructure is in the works around iconic sites like Gagarin\u2019s launchpad \u2013 the oldest and most famous launch pad at Baikonur, where the world&#8217;s first human spaceflight took place in 1961 \u2013 with immersive experiences, hotels, glamping facilities, and a children\u2019s camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&amp;nbspBotagoz Marabai Published on 10\/09\/2025 &#8211; 15:00 GMT+2 \u2022Updated 15:12 ADVERTISEMENT A cosmic journey awaits visitors to Kazakhstan\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[14325,2284,61,60,14324,82,247,6306,2521],"class_list":["post-15159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-baikonur","tag-history","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kazakhstan","tag-science","tag-space","tag-tourism","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}