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
The Space Shuttle orbiter is the crewed spaceplane component of the Space Transportation System (STS). The other components were a large external fuel tank (ET) and two Rocketdyne solid rocket boosters (SRB) used for take-off and jettisoned before reaching orbit. Six orbiters were built for flight; Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Read more
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
Cutaway illustration of a hybrid electric car for TT Electronics–Hybrid & Electric Vehicles brochure.
