Foreigners Banned From Baikonur
Kazakhstan bans foreigners from Baikonur, other areas, Novosti
“The Kazakh government issued a decree on Friday banning foreigners from visiting four areas of the country, including the city of Baikonur, which services the eponymous space center. Baikonur, the town of Gvardeysk near the former capital, Almaty, and two regions in the Kyzylorda province have been closed to foreigners until 2015.”
Editor’s note: Gee, that is certainly going to make it rather difficult non-residents of Kazakhstan to ride Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS – or return home, isn’t it? The “Gap” just became a void.