But after seeing footage of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft crash down on the remote Kazakh Steppe 10 years ago ... He camped out with them on the grasslands northeast of the Russian-owned Baikonur ...

While they can land in water, their 13 target landing sites are all on land in the sparsely inhabited Kazakhstan steppe (flat grasslands). According to russianspaceweb.com, the descent is slowed ...

Kazakhstan is a land of breathtaking contrasts that present unparalleled natural beauty in the rugged peaks of the Tian Shan ...

Tobyl's Thinker stares up into the sky, his deep-set eyes exaggerating his thoughtful gaze as he contemplates the world ...

The two drivers navigating around a national park in the dead of the night are Kazakh rangers trying to ... an area known as Altyn Dala or the Golden steppe. "This is a huge landscape of steppe ...