Every three months in Kazakhstan, a trio of cosmonauts and astronauts head off to the International Space Station – then return in small capsules. What do the locals make of it?
Safe return … three space adventurers return to EarthEvery three months a space rocket carrying three astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. At around the same time, to the north-east in remote grasslands, three other astronauts return to Earth.
Launch Pad One is where the first human, Yuri Gagarin, launched to space on April 12, 1961. The Soyuz spacecraft has been in operation since the late 1960s and, due to its length of service, is considered the safest and most cost-effective space vehicle. The capsule of the spacecraft, which is not reusable, measures just 2.2 metres long and 2.1 metres wide. Each one can carry up to three people.
Although he had initially been drawn to record the space travellers, it was the local community residing in the isolated grasslands who compelled him to return ‘I found a people largely uninterested in the space travellers and yet somehow bound up in this strange ritual. These descendants of nomads once again on the edge of a new horizon’
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