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Can Russia Walk Away From Its Cape Canaveral?

Posted by Matt in April 11th, 2008

The trouble is, Baikonur is in Kazakhstan, not Russia. That didn’t matter at all in Soviet times, but since the breakup of the Soviet Union, it has meant continuing friction between the Russian space program and a host government that the Kremlin can no longer order around on a whim — not to mention that the Kazakhs now charge $115 million a year in rent for the sprawling facility, and reap much of the economic benefit when Russia invests there.

The lease runs until 2050, but the Russian space program, which President Vladimir Putin recently said would get an injection of new money, evidently is thinking of decamping sooner than that. Reuters reports the rationale:

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