Everything You Need To Know About Tim Peake’s Space Mission

Tim, 43, will be launched into space on Tuesday in a mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

According to NASA, the trio will rendezvous with the space station and dock to the Rassvet module at 12:24 p.m. And the hatches between the Soyuz and space station will be opened at about 2:25 p.m.

British astronaut Tim Peake is eagerly looking forward to his first glorious view of Planet Earth seen from space.

On Sunday the 162-ft long Soyuz FG rocket was slowly manoeuvred into position ready for blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

He added: “We’re not anxious at all. We’ve been following his training and know how thorough it is, so we don’t have any fears”. “That’s far more risky, believe me, than going up there”.

Special guests included world paratriathlete champion, Lauren Steadman and Dr Jon Scott from the European Astronaut Centre explained some of the challenges of exercising both on space and on Earth.

They are scheduled to spend nearly six months aboard the space station, which orbits the Earth at an average altitude of 220 miles. Major Peake graduated in 1992 aged 20 from Sandhurst as an officer in the Army Air Corps.

The crew’s mission is titled Principia, after Isaac Newton’s ground-breaking Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which describes the principal laws of motion and gravity.

He will also help with the day-to-day maintenance of the ISS life support, communications and power systems.

‘Any time two vehicles come in close proximity in space it is hazardous, ‘ Major Peake said.

In April, he’s also planning to run the 26.2mile London Marathon on the ISS’s treadmill.

Then at 7pm, Stargazing Live is back on BBC2 for Brit in Space, as Dara and Brian are joined by the first ever Briton in space, Helen Sharma – and Tim makes his first phone call home. But her mission was funded partly by the Russians and partly by British private industry.

Meanwhile, his wife Rebecca and their two sons undergo their own preparations as they face the prospect of six months without their husband and father. Everyone else has to communicate with him across a glass partition at the Cosmonaut.

He stood and smiled as he was introduced at the press conference to loud applause.