Major Peake took a shot out of the window of the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbited the Earth.
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The space walk is taking place so the astronauts can try to fix a part called the “mobile transporter” – a rail that runs along the length of the space station, which a robotic arm moves along.
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They will join American astronaut Scott Kelly, who in March will become the the first American to spend an uninterrupted year on the ISS, and crewmates Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Russian Federation. The European Space Agency has made a playlist of his music on Spotify.
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According to Major Peake’s Facebook post, he had the bacon sarnie while waiting for his first meal on the International Space Station (ISS).
He says his first impressions of space go way beyond his expectations. The room filled with an applause in Baikonur theatre in Kazakhstan where the astronaut’s family and friends were present to witness his safe arrival, along with NASA and ESA officials as they watched the hatch open.
“What people don’t mention that much is when you look the opposite direction and you see how dark space is – I mean it’s the blackest black and you see how small the Earth is in that blackness”.
“We kind of got lucky”.
The latest crop of space station residents has received many messages of support from their home countries.
From Westbourne, near Chichester in West Sussex, the UK’s first professional British astronaut said the most unexpected thing about the experience so far had been “the blackness of space”.
He was asked questions ranging from what the tea was like in space to what he would do on Christmas Day.
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As Peake psyched himself for liftoff Tuesday by listening to tracks by Queen, U2 and Coldplay, the BBC offered wall-to-wall TV coverage, complete with good-luck messages from Sting, Prime Minister David Cameron and “Doctor Who” star Peter Capaldi. At least the center-of-gravity is good, and access should be easy for the spacewalkers, he said.
