Capability: Human spaceflight in LEO. Maiden Flight: 1960-05-15 Flight Life: Longest flight was 4 days. Crew Capacity: 1 Payload Capacity: 4725 Vostok 4 was a Vostok spacecraft which launched on 12 August 1962 08:02:33 UTC. It transported one cosmonaut to Low Earth Orbit. The crew was Pavel Popovich. History The Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as […]
Capability: Human spaceflight in LEO. Maiden Flight: 1960-05-15 Flight Life: Longest flight was 4 days. Crew Capacity: 1 Payload Capacity: 4725 Vostok 5 was a Vostok spacecraft which launched on 14 June 1963 11:58:58 UTC. It transported one cosmonaut to Low Earth Orbit. The crew was Valery Bykovsky. History The Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as […]
Capability: Human spaceflight in LEO. Maiden Flight: 1960-05-15 Flight Life: Longest flight was 4 days. Crew Capacity: 1 Payload Capacity: 4725 Vostok 6 was a Vostok spacecraft which launched on 16 June 1963 09:29:52 UTC. It transported one cosmonaut to Low Earth Orbit. The crew was Valentina Tereshkova. History The Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as […]
Capability: SpaceShipTwo is carried to its launch altitude by a Scaled Composites White Knight Two, before being released to fly on into the upper atmosphere powered by its rocket engine. It then glides back to Earth and performs a conventional runway landing. Maiden Flight: 2010-10-10 Flight Life: Short suborbital flights Crew Capacity: 8 VSS Enterprise […]
Capability: SpaceShipTwo is carried to its launch altitude by a Scaled Composites White Knight Two, before being released to fly on into the upper atmosphere powered by its rocket engine. It then glides back to Earth and performs a conventional runway landing. Maiden Flight: 2010-10-10 Flight Life: Short suborbital flights Crew Capacity: 8 VSS Unity, […]
Capability: Experimental aircraft used for Aircraft and Spacecraft design Maiden Flight: 1959-06-08 Flight Life: ~10 minute flights Crew Capacity: 1 First X-15 experimental rocket plane. History The North American X-15 currently holds the record for the highest speed in a manned, powered aircraft. The three variants of the X-15 flew nearly 200 times, with […]
Capability: Experimental aircraft used for Aircraft and Spacecraft design Maiden Flight: 1959-06-08 Flight Life: ~10 minute flights Crew Capacity: 1 Second X-15 experimental rocket plane. History The North American X-15 currently holds the record for the highest speed in a manned, powered aircraft. The three variants of the X-15 flew nearly 200 times, with […]
Capability: Experimental aircraft used for Aircraft and Spacecraft design Maiden Flight: 1959-06-08 Flight Life: ~10 minute flights Crew Capacity: 1 Third X-15 experimental rocket plane. Destroyed during flight 191. History The North American X-15 currently holds the record for the highest speed in a manned, powered aircraft. The three variants of the X-15 flew […]
