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Amazing! it brought tears to my eyes.
What must his family have been going through during that?... such mixed emotions.
What must his family have been going through during that?... such mixed emotions.
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** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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I can't believe how nervous I was watching it. Don't think I would have made an astronaut!
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Amazing stuff.
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Awesome stuff.
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Great to see Tim Peake in orbit. Met him last year, really nice guy. So jealous though!
Anyone catch some sort of disagreement between the other two crew just after third stage sep? One of them reached to turn a switch and the other grabbed his hand to stop him. Then followed lots of pointing to the flight plan haha.
Anyone catch some sort of disagreement between the other two crew just after third stage sep? One of them reached to turn a switch and the other grabbed his hand to stop him. Then followed lots of pointing to the flight plan haha.
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Amazing !!!! Best of luck to Tim Peake and all the crew 
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Yeah, bugger that!
its something I'm very happy to watch others do... along with mountain climbing, and potholing. Sitting atop a rocket is another level of madness though; when we have ships like Star Wars I may consider it 
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something I'd love to do, I'd actually cry once up there I think
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i like the russians little stick thing.
You mean the 1940s/50s slide rule designed ICBM that they replaced the warhead with a capsule and nose cone (again slide rules) all powered by a 8080 CPU?
A longer look back at launch day:
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Getting close to docking now. Watching it on nasa tv, bbc and my ISS onLive app.
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Erk; switched to manual! And it looked liked it was all going well.
Done a flyaround going for another approach manoeuvre and approaching.
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Sweating just watching it. When the retro thrusters kicked in after the first failed auto-dock, well I wonder how regularly that happens? Looked perfect from the stream.
Capture is confirmed. Docked!
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The russians still don't know know how to make a good looking spacecraft. Soyuz still looks like something from the 1950s