The first jet passenger aircraft in the USSR

On 15 September 1956 Aeroflot on the route came the first jet airliner Tu-104. The history of this aircraft began in 1953, when the Tupolev was given the task of creating a jet airliner. As a basis, in order not to lose time, the Tupolev took only developed the Tu-16. In the terms of reference on the Tu-104, it was stated that the car needs to take on Board up to 50 passengers and up to 1250 kg of cargo, flying at a speed of 959-1000 km/h at a distance of from 3200 to 3500 km and have the length of run no more than 1650 m. From the bomber plane went to the cockpit, wings, engine nacelles, landing gear, and navigation devices, but all other parts are designed anew. In December 1954 the state Commission approved the layout, and in March 1955 was built a prototype. In may of 1956 the first cars after tests enrolled in the civil air fleet, and on 15 September the Tu-104 made its first regular flight on the route Moscow-Omsk-Irkutsk. Thus, the design of the liner to its serial operation less than three years old.

Самолёт Ту-104
The Tu-104

15 September 1968 space station ZOND-5 for the first time orbited the moon. On a cosmic scale, automatic the unit was literally “blasts” to the moon, only 1900 miles. The operation was conducted at a distance of about 400 thousand kilometers. On this day the USSR announced a new victory in space, the first ever flight around the moon unmanned spacecraft. Flight of the ZOND-5 made it possible to solve complex scientific and technical task of returning to the land of the flying machine with the 2nd cosmic speed around the track Moon-Earth. Interestingly, on the ship ZOND-5 was the turtle who was the first creature in history, which circled the moon and returned to Earth.

Космический аппарат Зонд-5
Spacecraft ZOND-5

15 September 1997 registered domain Google.com. The founders of the future of the Corporation, Larry page and Sergey Brin met for a couple of years before that, in 1995, at Stanford University. And in 1996, they started drafting the search engine BackRub. After a year of operation of the system on the servers of Stanford, its traffic exceeded the capacity of the mains of the University and friends come to believe that it is time to grow. In addition, they decide to choose a new name. Google has been distorted from the word googol, which means the number ten to the hundredth degree. For the first time, the name Google has used the Google domain.stanford.edu.Despite the fact that domain was registered back in 1997, a registration statement of the company filed friends a year later, on 4 September 1998. However, September 15 is the birthday of Google and its primary domain Google.com.

Первый логотип Google
The first Google logo


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