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    Flights - Ground Control To Major TIM!

    's RIGHT! You read it correctly, I DON'T mean "Ground Control to Major Tom" - the anti-hero of David Bowie's classic masterpiece - released into the charts to presumably coincide with mankind's first Lunar Landing ... 3 years before our subject's birth.

    Tim Peake, born in Chichester, West Sussex in 1972 is a former Major with the RASC. Peake, a fitness enthusiast, graduated from Sandhurst and is an experienced aircraft pilot who has swapped his army role to become the first (and only British) astronaut to take part in manned research missions to the International Space Station which apparently orbits about 250 miles above the Earth.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/scie...e-Station.html

    Due to blast off on the morning of December 15th - returning approximately six months' later - I guess, by then, he really will've reached his peak!
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    Is he the one who is going to run a marathon in space, or do something similar?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Parnham View Post
    Is he the one who is going to run a marathon in space, or do something similar?
    Indeed he is, Michael - the London Marathon -

    - ... quite how he intends to mange it while in orbit,
    though, is well ... ... beyond my comprehension!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    Indeed he is, Michael - the London Marathon -

    - ... quite how he intends to mange it while in orbit,
    though, is well ... ... beyond my comprehension!
    It will be interesting Arthur, also thank you!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    December 15th
    .............. date is of special personal significance ... in so far as it's the anniversary of my wedding to my late first wife forty~eight years ago!
    Last edited by Arthur Little; 15th December 2015 at 13:16.


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    ... bon voyage! Just thinking ... if he were a Scot, he'd be a "floating" voter at May's Scottish Elections.
    Last edited by Arthur Little; 15th December 2015 at 18:11.


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    Lightbulb Update

    Tim Peake says: "Life in space is 'absolutely spectacular' ... far better than I could've ever imagined!"

    www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35131174
    Last edited by Arthur Little; 20th June 2016 at 01:01.


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    Guys, if the space station is only 250 miles above the earth why did it take a rocket that flies at thousands of miles per hour over 7 hours to get there? no, its not a trick question I'm struggling to understand...


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    Quote Originally Posted by Longweekend View Post
    Guys, if the space station is only 250 miles above the earth why did it take a rocket that flies at thousands of miles per hour over 7 hours to get there? no, its not a trick question I'm struggling to understand...
    ... tbh, ... I'd been wondering the same thing. !


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    ... tbh, ... I'd been wondering the same thing. !
    I think it's because it orbits the Earth first


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    Maybe its time for a new satnav...


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    ... sad to've [since] learnt of the death of David Bowie, the 1969 classic's original lyricist.

    RIP


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    Lightbulb Tim Peake: Spacewalk - "My Finest Moments"

    's something you might like to watch ...

    www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36423654

    ... as the intrepid British astronaut prepares to return to base later this month, after completing his 6 months' space probe.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    's something you might like to watch ...

    www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36423654

    ... as the intrepid British astronaut prepares to return to base later this month, after completing his 6 months' space probe.
    Gripping stuff Arthur, will look forward to that, they live a really exciting life way beyond anything that we would call normal, so lucky really.


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    There was a clear night a few days ago, and using an ISS tracker on my tablet we went outside to see him going over our house. I tried that in the Philippines too, but the problem is that normally the route it takes is very low to the horizon and I was not able to spot it.
    If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up


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    Think of all the wonderful pictures he has taken, Amazing


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    Quote Originally Posted by stevewool View Post
    Think of all the wonderful pictures he has taken, Amazing
    Good point


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    ... UK astronaut, Tim Peake is now back on terra firma!

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36519886 ... Pictures +


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    Very interesting and some great pictures, thank you Arthur.


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    To be able to take a picture of where you live is great but to take a picture of the planet where you live , well not many people can do that, i wish i could


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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Parnham View Post
    Very interesting and some great pictures, thank you Arthur.
    Ah, the pleasure's mine, Michael ... I'm really glad you've enjoyed reading about this bloke's progress as much as I have.


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    Quote Originally Posted by stevewool View Post
    To be able to take a picture of where you live is great but to take a picture of the planet where you live, well not many people can do that, i wish i could.
    Terrific achievement together with superb pictures ... !


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