Soyuz TMA-19M Launch 15th December - Timothy Peake

[Gary]

Nine day's until Timothy Peake launches for his six month stint to ISS Tim Peake is a former Apache pilot

Live coverage of the launch should be on the following also on BBC / SKY News
NASA TV There’s normally a delay with this feed
Space Flight Now

Tim Peake is part of Expedition 47 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_47

You can follow is progress on his social media pages

https://www.facebook.com/ESATimPeake
https://twitter.com/Astro_TimPeake
https://www.flickr.com/photos/timpeake

Mission objectives http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human ... /Principia

Random fact time One of the astronauts launching with Timothy Peake is Tim Kopra who missed out on the final launch of OV-103 'Discovery' back in 2011 as he had a bike accident and broke his hip around a month before launch

[Gary]

Launch tomorrow BBC have a stargazing live special at 7pm Where they hope to speak with Tim

Does anyone know where to get Tim Principia patch from? I believe Stewart Emblems has been mentioned? Didn't know they were still going

[Gary]

1 min to launch

[redfoxy]

Launch tomorrow BBC have a stargazing live special at 7pm Where they hope to speak with Tim

Does anyone know where to get Tim Principia patch from? I believe Stewart Emblems has been mentioned? Didn't know they were still going

Here,s the link to the space page. Regards Paul. http://www.stewart-aviation.co.uk/space1.html

[Gary]

Thanks I notice Spaceboosters also have it listed now

[stevep22]

Spaceboosters excellent. Nick works very hard bringing his space memorabilia and merchandise to events up and down the country. Plus he's a thoroughly nice chap........

[martmpf]

Watching the docking on NASA TV and BBC news, it was clear that from NASA, the that the first attempt was aborted automatically by the docking system. The Soyuz backed away.
The Russian commander took over in manual control and flew it in to about 10-20 metres of the docking port whilst testing the systems.
He then backed away again.
Docked successfully on the third manual approach. He can fly me any day. Well done.

PS: Russian Mission Control asked him to "hold" at 3 metres on the third approach, it looked like he didn't.

[Cannon Gray]

During the process of the <a href="https://www.skyrora.com/">rocket manufacturing process</a>, the spacecraft and launch vehicle were insured against total loss in an emergency launch.