British astronaut Tim Peake off to ISS for a six-month stay

British astronaut Tim Peake off to ISS for a six-month stay British astronaut Major Tim Peake off to ISS for a six-month stay. He is right now at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and will blast off in a Soyuz spacecraft. His companions are NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko to the ISS. Tim Peake would be carrying out a series of experiments for the ESA and will be running science projects designed by children.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 13 December 2015.

Yuri Gagarin had blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 1961 to become the first human in space.
Major Tim Peake will be the second Briton in space after Helen Sharman, but the first to be funded by the UK Government. He will also be the first British astronaut to travel to, and live on board, the International Space Station (ISS) when he starts his six-month mission.
The engines of the Soyuz will produce 26 million horsepower of thrust, accelerating the three-man crew to 17,500mph in less than nine minutes. Hundreds of rocket tourists have gathered for the launch, including space scientists.
The mission of the drew crew is titled Principia, after Isaac Newton's ground-breaking Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which describes the principal laws of motion and gravity.
The three men to fly to ISS are currently in quarantine at Baikonur’s Cosmonaut Hotel. The isolation is to prevent potentially serious infections from being carried to the ISS.

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