Peake’s status as the first publicly funded British astronaut and the first to visit the International Space Station is credited with putting space back on the agenda in the UK.
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“The support for our launch was outstanding, and I want to thank each of you for the #GoodLuckTim messages”, said Peake.
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Bayern next faces last season’s runner-up Juventus in the last 16, with the first leg on February 23. In the meantime there is sure to be plenty of speculation over what his next move will be.
Major Peake’s mission – Principia – was named after Sir Isaac Newton’s text outlining the laws of motion and gravity.
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The plan is for a new trilogy, but Daniels wouldn’t say if he’ll be in the next two instalments. Security will be tight, with several streets blocked to traffic and extra police on patrol.
There were tense moments shortly before Major Peake and his colleagues – Russian Yuri Malenchenko and American Tim Kopra – docked when their rocket suffered a technical glitch.
The former army pilot and his two Soyuz crew mates arrived at the space platform on Tuesday, following a six-and-a-half-hour journey from Kazakhstan.
During the press conference, the British astronaut spoke to journalists who had gathered at the European Astronaut Centre near Cologne, Germany.
“I do of course wish everybody who is deployed on operations all the very best of luck and a happy Christmas and a happy new year”.
During more than five months on humanity’s only microgravity laboratory, the Expedition 46 crew members will conduct over 250 science investigation in fields including biology, Earth science, human research, physical sciences and technology development, the U.S. space agency said in a statement. He left planet Earth by Soyuz rocket on Tuesday, and – after a nerve-wracking nine-minute delay as the automatic system aborted and the capsule’s Russian commander took manual control – he began his new career in orbit at 5.33pm GMT that evening.
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Whatever you need to keep the space station running and to keep the science moving forward up there, he is ready to do.
“I believe that on [December 21] we get to see that up here on the Space Station”.
‘It is just the blackest black and you realise just how small the Earth is in that blackness.
He said: “We are very excited about the Star Wars movie, we are all fans up here”.
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In April he will run the entire 26.2-mile London Marathon on a treadmill aboard the space station.
