Major Tim Peake - Sussex's First Astronaut

[Thunder Bolt]

Things seem to not be going so well?

Switched over to manual docking.

 

[banjo]

Manually docking.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Saying its docked on BBC but no pics

 

[dangull]

8 minutes to get into orbit, hours before docking with the space station 250 miles away. NASA or NSC may explain this at some point.

Then doing a few tests with mice and plants for 6 months to see how gravity works on this.

Exciting stuff

 

[vegster]

Lots of talk on 5Live about kids wanting to become astronauts after todays events, I hope they are made to watch Gravity before they choose their career path.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Then doing a few tests with mice and plants for 6 months to see how gravity works on this.

I'm guessing the mice will just float about?

 

[dangull]

I'm guessing the mice will just float about?

They will have special mice space suits.

 

[skipper734]

Ground control to Major Tim.

 

[BensGrandad]

A great achievement and full praise to him but I am not that interested as I shall never see Mars as a holiday resort and anything other than a bar of chocolate. Having said that I have never been interested in space travel even during the days of Yuri Gagarin good luck to those that are.

 

[shaolinpunk]

I am not that interested as I shall never see Mars as a holiday resort

Certainly not in your lifetime, no. In any of ours, for that matter.

 

[dangull]

A great achievement and full praise to him but I am not that interested as I shall never see Mars as a holiday resort and anything other than a bar of chocolate. Having said that I have never been interested in space travel even during the days of Yuri Gagarin good luck to those that are.

I am more interested in the rovers sent to mars, the voyager space crafts, Huygens probe landing on titon, and even the recent pluto photos sent recently at the edge of the solar system. But good luck to the guy anyway, seems like an interesting holiday.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Me too. I was lucky enough to be around when Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

It was great when Sputnik I was launched in 1957. And it still stirs me today.

 

[The Rivet]

I am more interested in the rovers sent to mars, the voyager space crafts, Huygens probe landing on titon, and even the recent pluto photos sent recently at the edge of the solar system. But good luck to the guy anyway, seems like an interesting holiday.[/QUOT

No, no holiday. Work most of the time. Free time once a week. He just has a better work 'view' than you or I

 

[Cheshire Cat]

 

[Frutos]

He is now safely aboard the ISS.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Brilliant - hopefully they have Sky and he can watch the Albion win away

 

[bravohotelalpha]

Brilliant - hopefully they have Sky and he can watch the Albion win away

Apparently TP has taken a Stoke flag with him ...

 

[topbanana36]

I hope he claims something up there for Sussex and plants a Sussex flag, how many more Sussex folk before we claim some record.

Live video stream here - countdown showing

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Principia/Principia_live

Wiltshire have been bleating on for months about him being one of theirs

 

[AlbionPics&SouthCoastTwit]

It was great when Sputnik I was launched in 1957. And it still stirs me today.

I called my dog Sputnik. He was always rushin to find the outer space of the garden.

 

[Phil B]

As he went up in a Russian rocket, he would be a Cosmonaut, Shirley ....... ?