A Soyuz rocket is erected on its launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 2012. The Central Specialized Design Bureau and the TsSKB-Progress company were both responsible for the development and production of the Soyuz system.
A Soyuz booster rocket launches from a Soviet Cosmodrome in 1975. Based off the late 1950's R7 series of intercontinental ballistic missile, the Soyuz booster rocket was used to launch Soviet and Russian spacecraft into orbit.
This image shows the launch site of Europe America Space Flight 500, the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, during the Cold War. Originally a top-secret ICBM site, Plesetsk was converted shortly after the Soviet Union's fall in 1991 into a commercial launch…