Watch Astronaut Tim Peake Blast Off Live For The International Space Station

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Link 1: Watch astronaut Tim Peake blast off live for the International Space Station

 

At 11:03am on Tuesday 15th December, Tim Peake will become the first British astronaut to journey to the International Space Station.

 

The launch will be broadcast live online by the European Space Agency, and you can watch it all happen...

 

Link 2: Stargazing Live | Blast Off Live: A Stargazing Special | Radio Times

 

...O Briain and his team will be doing their best to give some of the grandeur back to space travel, getting across the programme’s history of discovery, the unmatched international cooperation and the sheer spectacle of slipping the surly bonds of Earth etc.

 

At the launch itself from Kazahkstan, Peake will have a camera pointed at his face throughout the extreme G-forces. Perfect. It’s space travel for the selfie generation.

 

Blast Off Live will be on BBC1 at 10:30.

[jdoyle]

Wonder how many schools will be tuned in or doing something that touches on this topic.

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Blast Off Live will be on BBC1 at 10:30.

[jdoyle]

following on Twitter and the BBC website - but have to go to a meeting at 11. :-(

[bald_pig]

I've got the BBC stream up on monitor 3, the other stream link didn't want to play for me.

[Patrick]

That was cool!

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That was cool!

 

I missed it as I got a support call before it started and I have only just finished dealing with it!

 

[Patrick]

I'm going to watch the docking tonight then watch apollo 13 afterwards! Got the space bug today!

[foofighterjim]

Missed it too but I can see we actually hit 60Mbps on our Smoothwalls external interface, by far the highest sustained usage since its install in April. I suspect this won't be beaten until England play Wales in the summer.

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Link: Watch LIVE: Astronaut Tim Peake returns to Earth

 

Major Peake is set to come back to Earth on Saturday, June 18.

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Link: UK astronaut Tim Peake boards capsule for return to Earth - BBC News

 

...A Soyuz capsule carrying Major Peake and two other crew members will land in Kazakhstan at 10:15 BST on Saturday...

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The capsule de-orbit burn has begun. This will last about five minutes.

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ESA Press Release

 

First news conference with Tim Peake tomorrow (June 21) since his return to Earth.

 

Watch live from 11:00 GMT/ 12:00 UK time / 13:00 CEST or click this link to add it to your agenda:

http://livestream.com/ESA/PrincipiaPostflightNewsConference

Edited June 20, 2016 by elsiegee40