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10th December 2015 #1
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!Last edited by Arthur Little; 10th June 2016 at 22:37.
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10th December 2015 #2
Is he the one who is going to run a marathon in space, or do something similar?
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15th December 2015 #6
... 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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19th December 2015 #7
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-35131174Last edited by Arthur Little; 20th June 2016 at 01:01.
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20th December 2015 #8
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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21st December 2015 #11
Maybe its time for a new satnav...
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12th January 2016 #12
... sad to've [since] learnt of the death of David Bowie, the 1969 classic's original lyricist.
RIP
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10th June 2016 #13
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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11th June 2016 #15
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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11th June 2016 #16
Think of all the wonderful pictures he has taken, Amazing
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19th June 2016 #18
... UK astronaut, Tim Peake is now back on terra firma!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36519886 ... Pictures +
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19th June 2016 #19
Very interesting and some great pictures, thank you Arthur.
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19th June 2016 #20
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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