Yuri Gagarin

Helen Sharman became the first British person in space in 1991 after responding to a radio advertisement that simply said, "Astronaut wanted. No experience necessary." Selected from 13,000 applicants,…

The article summarizes the history of IBM's System/4 Pi family of aerospace computers, introduced around 1967, which were used in military aircraft, missiles, submarines, and NASA programs like Skylab…