UK's FIRST ASTRONAUT TO JOIN ISS TEAM





Published on Dec 15, 2015
Astronaut Tim Peake, United Kingdom's first astronaut to join the International Space Station.

 Tim Peake, the first British astronaut to travel to the International Space Station, blasted off on Tuesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome with two other spacemen, to cheers and excitement back home.

Astronaut Peake, joins Russian Cosmonaut Yury Malenchenko and US AstronautTim Kopra for a six-month mission on the ISS.


Fire from the boosters of the Soyuz rocket cut a bright light through the overcast sky at the Moscow-operated cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as the spacecraft launched on schedule at 1103 GMT.

Russian space officials said the launch had gone according to plan and that the spacecraft was due to dock at the ISS at about 1724 GMT.


Crowds gathered in the Science Museum in London to witness the liftoff, with thousands of people including around 2,000 schoolchildren breaking into screams and waving British flags as giant screens set up in the exhibition hall showed the rocket blasting off.

Peake himself was relaxed ahead of his first voyage into space, talking about his expectations of a festive season aboard the ISS during a pre-flight news conference at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur on Monday.

"We'll be enjoying the fantastic view of planet Earth and our thoughts will be with everyone on Earth enjoying Christmas and with our friends and family," he said.
On the eve of Peake's departure, the British government unveiled an ambitious new space policy.
The policy aims to more than triple the value of the sector to the national economy, reaching $40 billion by 2030.
UK Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, Sajid Javid, said the new policy will "turn science fiction into science fact" while helping London increase its share of the global space market from seven to 10 percent.
Space travel has been one of the few areas of international cooperation between Russia and the West that has not been wrecked by the Ukraine conflict.
The Soyuz trio will join up with three astronauts already at the ISS -- Scott Kelly of NASA and Russians Sergei Volkov and Mikhail Kornienko.
Three other astronauts -- NASA's Kjell Lindgren, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko -- returned to Earth on Friday.
The ISS space laboratory has been orbiting the Earth at roughly 28,000 kilometres (17,500 miles) an hour since 1998. 
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