New pad
The launch pad used to launch the now-cancelled Energia heavy-lift booster and Buran space shuttle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan will be modified for launches of Soyuz boosters carrying manned Soyuz and unmanned Progress spacecraft. Launch-pad processing buildings will be used to prepare space-station modules for the Alpha programme.
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