The Principia Mission by https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8 en-us 2019-11-17 13:25:01 UTC 2019-11-18 13:24:34 UTC hello@padlet.com 19th May 2008, ESA advertised online that they needed new astronauts saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412347987 2019-11-17 13:35:16 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412347987 Needed 1,000 hours experience flying high performance aircrafts and a degree in natural sciences, IT, engineering or maths to apply to be part of the ESA saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412348108 2019-11-17 13:36:22 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412348108 May 18th 2009, offered one of six places with European Astronaut Corps saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412349400 2019-11-17 13:46:22 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412349400 Went to space 6 months after working with mission control for classmate Luca Parmitano's visit to ISS. saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412391261 2019-11-17 17:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412391261 Went to space under the mission name 'Principia' saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412391374 2019-11-17 17:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412391374 First British ESA astronaut to live and work in space saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412391666 2019-11-17 17:49:38 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412391666 Principia mission meant Peake was in Space for 6 months saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412391717 2019-11-17 17:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412391717 ran vital experiments on the International space station (ISS) saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412391816 2019-11-17 17:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412391816 Investigated Earths climate saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412391912 2019-11-17 17:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412391912 Investigated new vaccines saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412392123 2019-11-17 17:51:07 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412392123 December 15th 2015 at 11:03 GMT, Tim Peake successfully launched from Kazakhstan saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412392286 2019-11-17 17:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412392286 Tim went with his Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko and US astronaut Tim Korpa saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412393266 2019-11-17 17:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412393266 They reached the international space station at 17:33 GMT on the same day saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412393388 2019-11-17 17:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412393388 docking at the ISS was hard as a radar system failed so it took 2 tense hours to dock saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412393521 2019-11-17 17:58:49 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412393521 Took his first space walk 1 month after living in the ISS saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412393993 2019-11-17 18:01:12 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412393993 His first space walk was about 50m to where they were going to do some maintenance work saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412394065 2019-11-17 18:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412394065 Tim had to replace a faulty unit that makes the solar panels on the ISS work during his space walk saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412394230 2019-11-17 18:02:27 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412394230 his first space walk was due to last 6 hours but got cut short. saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412394328 2019-11-17 18:03:02 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412394328 Travelled back to Earth on 18th June 2016 at 05:53 GMT. saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412394402 2019-11-17 18:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412394402 The mission lasted 3,000 orbits of the Earth and covered a distance of about 125 million km. saffron_emily https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412394546 2019-11-17 18:04:16 UTC https://padlet.com/saffron_emily/ubgd39v1dpx8/wish/412394546