By Maria Domnitskaya, Russia is going to build its first spaceport. It will be situated near the place where the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was born – the village of Klushino in the Smolensk region, 200 kms to the west from Moscow.The spaceport, which will be named after Gagarin, will be an analogue of Spaceport America in the US state of New Mexico. It is planned to build a hotel for space tourists, a launching pad for space planes, museums, park amusements, an exhibition center and a conference hall. Source: Voice of Russia.
