British Astronaut makes first contact from space

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So, this Tuesday, the first male Brit (Tim Peake) went up into space, something which has never been done by us before. In a publicly funded sense.

There is also a Russian and an American astronaut.

So, far so good. He says that space smells like metallic dust unlike the earths crust.


He will spend six months up there, studying particles of planetary matter to be able to help pioneering

scientists in their studies of life matter, to combat genealogies of illnesses and biological data taken from

fragments of the moons crust, and what that means to us as human species.






Well done Tim! You've made us all proud back in the U.K.

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He's not the first person from this country that has been 'allowed' to go into space.

The first was Helen Sharman in the early 90's.

I'm not sure why you would want to 'correct' me. I'm not one of NASA's feminists. Anybody from my country would know I meant first MALE Brit. I was not very old when SHE went up into space and nobody funded him.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology ... st-7026727

I wanted to correct you because your statement was incorrect. I like facts to be factual, no offence intended.

Including the current one, there have now been 7 British astronauts, all male apart from the one mentioned above.

Sorry, I don't read The Mirror.

neilson_wheels is correct. It was not at all clear from this, "something which has never been done by us before", that you only consider male astronauts worthy of mention. Most people would assume you meant astronauts from the UK, regardless of gender since the focus of your post seemed to be the UK-ness of the event.

I’m sorry, but again I have to re-correct you. (I’m not a huge space fan).

I had to look it up as recent news reel analysis and..

Tim Peake was born to British parents, therefore making him the first British astronaut to venture into space. Who survived the launch and was a candidate. Not a member of NASA’S teams.

Its not in my nature to argue ’loose blended facts’, but there is more in the write up (than just in the headline.)

If you really want all the facts illustrated here you can either tell me, or I could go through them one by one?? Or anyone else? I really don’t mind.

Bear in mind, its not the ISS, but the Moon that is the final goal.


Here’s the links I’ve got, it didn’t take me long to dissect.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stati ... embly.html (All Nasa missions)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35103788 (involved in space shuttle programme)

I think you are talking a load of chuff, but I'm not that bothered really. I'll leave you to your misinformed flag waving.

cool!

"Can you hear me Major Tim? Can you hear me Major Tim?"

(Sorry, couldn't resist the opportunity.)

All he's smelling is canned air that has been scrubbed and rescrubbed a great many times. To acually smell hard vacuum would be nearly instantaneously fatal. --Also didn't Mark Shuttlesworth of Ubuntu pay to take a trip to the ISS?

"The Soyuz finally docked with the ISS at 17:33 GMT. Peake received messages of support from the Queen and Elton John, after the succesful docking. His first meal at the ISS was a bacon sandwich and a cup of tea." - Wikipedia

How cliché, lmao. Good job ol' chap. Also, to resolve your argument; Tim Peake is the first British man to travel into space as a European astronaut (ESA) and not NASA. He's also the first English person to live on the ISS. Previous Brits have been part of NASA, and lived on Mir, not the ISS.

I think that if one were to "smell a hard vacuum", the only scent would come from one's own breath, leaving their lungs one last time...

My favorite video of David Bowie is this one of him playing "Space Oddity" on a television show. It's before Ziggy Stardust and all that; he just appears to be some young guy, a little nervous, up on stage playing an acoustic guitar and singing.

On that basis Alan Shephard is the first person of British origin in space in 1961 as he is descended from a first fleet passenger from London by the name of Richard Warren

Interesting (but not the same) hearing that track without the trademark saxophone. Bowie is obviously playing the song live (no lip-synching), and I suspect the orchestral arrangement may have caused him to appeare "a little nervous", although this (first Grammy appearence?) is far from his first US TV debut which was supposed to be "All the Young Dudes" on the ancient Dinah Shore show sometime in the late 1960's.

However at that pointe in time he was called by his real name David "DAVIE" Jones in order not to confuse him with the Monkee "DAVY" Jones. After signing with RCA in '69 (I think) the label recommended he change his name to Bowie. So perhaps the awards ceremony was indeed the TV debut of DAVID "BOWIE".

All in the season of Goodwill I suppose..

You could always manage yourself better by exploring some of the facts first before belting out ones through popular appeal.

I understand though, if offending people comes naturally to you.

I have a series of scientific facts, from the department of health but managed through NASA.

All links can be sourced through the media coverage I have here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt ... 2a22bd1ebc

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35101643


"Mr Peake is making history as the first official UK astronaut".


" The father-of-two is the first Briton to join the crew of the ISS."


"The former Army major is the first Briton to join the crew of the ISS and is employed by the European Space Agency.


"Helen Sharman became the first British citizen to travel to space when she visited the Soviet space station Mir in 1991.
Other Britons who have flown into space have done so either as private individuals or by taking US citizenship."
("see end of second link")

Facts on Sharman
A former chemist for a chocolate company, Helen Sharman was Britain's first astronaut.
She won her place on a space trip in 1989 after answering an advertisement she heard on the radio, which said: "Astronaut wanted. No experience necessary."
She was eventually selected from more than 13,000 applicants to be the British member of the Soviet scientific space mission, Project Juno,(also funded by Russian soviets) which travelled to the Mir space station in 1991.
Ms Sharman spent 18 months training in Star City - 30km north-east of Moscow, Russia - and during her eight days in space she carried out a series of medical and agricultural experiments.


Health and biological experiments with NASA



Another project, called Fluid Shifts and managed by Nasa, is exploring the question of pressure within the brain.


Astronauts have often reported problems with their vision and the assumption is that this is the result of fluids shifting within the body and particularly moving towards the head.
Researchers at University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust have found a connection between the brain and the ear, and a better grasp of how this process works could help with a new technique for assessing brain pressure by taking measurements in the ear.


But if there is ever to be a long trek through space to Mars or even beyond, medical knowledge of how humans cope will be essential.
So some of the research is aimed specifically at gaining new insights that will benefit future generations of spacefarers while other experiments are designed to have a relevance to life here on Earth.
One European Space Agency project is investigating the properties of metals in a level of detail that cannot be matched down on the ground because of the influence of gravity.


Early days

A UK company, Marchbanks Measurements Systems, has come up with a device that can detect slight changes in the inner ear.
The company's founder Dr Robert Marchbanks told us:" It is crucial to the understanding of how brain pressure changes. It is a different environment, there is no gravity but that is important to our understanding of brain pressure."
And while some research is aimed at improving human health, another focus is on helping answer the fundamental question of whether we are alone in the universe.
Since micro-organisms such as bacteria have been found thriving in the most inhospitable corners of Earth - from the deep-frozen Antarctic to boiling hydrothermal vents - the next step is to explore how they cope with space.