Most of these traditions, such as watching “White Sun of the Desert”, a 1970 Soviet action film, on the eve of a launch, date back to the early years of space exploration.
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The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-19M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015.
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Astronaut Tim Peake made history Tuesday, blasting off from a launchpad in Kazakhstan on his way to join the crew of the International Space Station.
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Peake recently shared a playlist on music streaming service Spotify revealing all of the songs he will be listening to in space.
Peake will be Britain’s first astronaut to go to the International Space Station (ISS) and this will be his first mission. In fact, one Twitter user, Christ Eastabrook, make a small comment about how Peake must be upset that he gets to go to space while missing Star Wars.
All remains good for Tim Kopra, Tim Peake and Yuri Malenchenko just minutes after liftoff as they head to the International Space Station.
Once a tight seal is confirmed, the air pressure in the Soyuz is equalised with that of the ISS and the hatch is opened, so the new arrivals can enter the station… but that won’t happen for a couple of hours.
Peake blasted off this morning on baord the Soyuz rocket, alongside USA astronaut Tim Kopra and veteran Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.
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 trio will join Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly, of NASA, and flight engineers Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov, both of Roscosmos.
“Don’t Stop Me Now” by the rock group Queen was blaring in the Soyuz roughly half an hour before blastoff as the astronauts listened to their favourite music in preparation for the mission.
Major Peake, 43, was selected by the European Space Agency from a pool of 8,000 applicants in 2009 to become the first British-funded astronaut to live and work on the ISS.
“To Europe and the United Kingdom, I hope you enjoyed the show”.
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Her Majesty added that the “thoughts and prayers of the whole country are with him and the crew, especially at this time of year”.
