Kazakhstan unrest not affecting Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport, Russia says

The International Space Station will be launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 5, 2021. The image is from Roscosmos TV.

Russian officials say the current chaos in the nation isn't affecting the famous spaceport.

Protests have been taking place in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan, which was once part of the Soviet Union. According to The New York Times, some of the protests have turned violent, resulting in the deaths of anti-government demonstrators.

The Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is the jumping-off point for all crewed Russian space missions, has remained unaffected by the unrest, according to Russia's federal space agency.

Russia has space centers and launch sites.

The situation in Baikonur is normal, according to the Roscosmos Press Service. The head of Baikonur administration, Konstantin Busygin, reports on the situation around Baikonur to the director of the Russian space agency.

Baikonur has been visited by NASA astronauts many times over the years, and they've launched to the International Space Station from there.
After NASA retired its space shuttle fleet in 2011, the only way to go to space was on the Russian Soyuz. In 2020, the Crew Dragon capsule began flying missions to the International Space Station from Florida. Boeing is working to get its own astronauts taxi, the Starliner, up and running.

Dan Huot, the agency's spokesman, told Space.com that the agency isn't directly affected by the current situation in the country.
What's happening in the country matters in the bigger picture and on a number of levels.
The New York Times said that the country has been regarded as a pillar of political and economic stability in an unstable region, even as that stability has come at the price of a repressive government that stifles dissent. The protests are significant because of the fact that the country is aligned with Russia and its president, Vladimir V. Putin.

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