The British astronaut is going to spend the next six months inside the ISS while carrying out pre-planned experiments while enduring zero-gravity.
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Along with a Russian and an American, Britain can be forgiven for focusing on Tim Peake – the nation’s first astronaut to visit the station. His selection for the program in 2009 marked a change in policy-before he was chosen, Britain had an official policy against spending money on manned space missions. Already aboard are Russians Sergey Volkov and Mikhail Korniyenko, along with American Scott Kelly.
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The new crew members are Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, US NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra, and European Space Agency astronaut Timothy Peake.
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Peake’s mission, Principia, centres on dozens of scientific experiments to explore how the body adapts to space, how advanced materials form in weightless conditions, and trialling new technologies, including remote control systems for operating rovers on planetary surfaces.
The three crew had taken off in their 305-ton Soyuz FG rocket at 11.03am United Kingdom time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The spacecraft docked successfully at the space station roughly six hours after liftoff. The pair will have spent 340 consecutive days living and working in space to advance understanding of the medical, psychological and biomedical challenges astronauts face during long duration spaceflight, in addition to developing countermeasures to reverse those effects.
Three other astronauts – NASA’s Kjell Lindgren, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko – returned to Earth on Friday in a rare nighttime landing, marking the end of Expedition 45.
The Queen also wished Major Peake good luck prior to his landmark trip. Previously, astronauts of British origin were either privately funded or USA citizens representing NASA. They are arrived at the space station at 5.33pm GMT and opened the hatch to their new home two hours later.
Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky wrote, “You see it so many times in the movies, but watching that rocket take off live was quite moving”.
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The Chichester Observer, local paper in Peake’s hometown, quoted his former physics teacher Mike Gouldstone as saying: “This is every physics teacher’s dream, to have had a future astronaut in front of you”.
