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Catalogue reference: BIS 157
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].
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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For the UK Space Agency website, please see: BIS 30
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.
Principia Website
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