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
Space Shuttle
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
Architecture & Building
Shell Centre
Cutaway illustration demonstrating a proposal to utilise Thames water as part of a chilled beam HVAC air-conditioning system in the Shell Centre, located on London’s South Bank.