Civil Aviation & Aerospace
Vostok
Side profile of the Vostok rocket and cutaway technical illustration of the capsule. Vostok (Boctok or East) was a single-seat crewed spacecraft built by the Soviet Union. It carried the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space on April 12, 1961. Six crewed flights were made between 1961 and 1963. A Read more
Civil Aviation & Aerospace
Civil Aviation
De Havilland Comet The Comet was the first jet-engined passenger airliner and made its first test flight on 27 July 1949, the British Overseas Airways Company (BOAC) having already committed itself to the purchase of 10 aircraft. A clean, low-drag design had swept wings, integral wing fuel tanks, a pressurised Read more