In a tweet posted on Sunday, Peake disclosed that the International Space Station (ISS) will be treating the astronauts with a Star Wars screening to be projected onboard.
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But he expected to speak to members of his family on Christmas Day, and was also looking forward to tucking into a Christmas Pudding sent to the space station in a supply delivery.
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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. The Soyuz, which also carried NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and U.K. Space Agency’s Tim Peake, launched to the space station early this morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and reached the station after a 6-hour journey.
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Tim Peake is not the first Brit in space – that honour went to Helen Sharman, who visited the Russian Mir space station as part of a privately contracted assignment over 20 years past.
November 2 was the 15th anniversary of continuous human presence on board the ISS, with more than 200 people from 15 countries traveling to the space station. Malenchenko has logged 641 days in space across five flights, and Kopra was assigned in a February 2011 shuttle mission.
For Mike Gouldstone, Peake’s former Physics teacher, it was a dream come true.
“It is all quite emotional for me”. Image copyright Reuters Image caption Maj Peake is flying alongside Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (centre) and United States astronaut Tim Kopra.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid said the new policy will “turn science fiction into science fact” while helping London increase its share of the global space market to 10 percent from seven percent.
Soyuz TMA-19 arriving at the International Space Station.
The other three astronauts now living on the orbiting global space laboratory are commander Scott Kelly and cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov.
He and two colleagues will now spend around two hours making sure the connection is stable so they can enter the ISS which travels around the Earth at 17,500mph at an average altitude of 220 miles.
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The three astronauts will return to Earth on June 5th.
