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Speaking of Baikonur, there’s an interesting proposal on the table to make the space station a joint-stock company with Russia holding 70% of the shares. Anatoly Perminov, head of Roscosmos, made the proposal recently and Talgat Musabayev, head of KazCosmos and well-known Kazakh astronaut, has said they will consider it.

As I reported earlier, Russia is building a new cosmodrome and in the future will only use Baikonur for about 11% of its space flight. One wonders what they will do in the Kazakh launch pad to deserve a large majority stake which would allow them to outvote other shareholders.