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Principia Website

Catalogue reference: BIS 157

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BIS 157

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Principia website. [Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive].

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Reference

BIS 157

Title
Principia Website
Date

From 2015

Description

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Principia website. [Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive].

Arrangement

Please see information at Divisional level.

Related material

For the UK Space Agency website, please see: BIS 30

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, 2009-2016
Physical description

archived website(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

Gathered from original website.

Subjects
Topics
Official publications
Accruals

Future website versions may be anticipated.

Administrative / biographical background

In May 2013, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that Major Timothy Peake, a British Army Air Corps test pilot from Chichester, West Sussex, would fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on board a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The six-month mission was launched on 15 December 2015 with Peake a member of the Expedition 46/47 international crew, alongside NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko. Peake became the first British ESA astronaut to undertake a long duration mission on the ISS.

The mission name 'Principia' refers to Isaac Newton?s ground-breaking three-part text on physics, 'Naturalis Principia Mathematica' (Latin for 'Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy') describing the principal laws of motion and gravity on which all space travel depends.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15202284/

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