Tim Peake : Good Luck Tomorrow
You are right. I think it must be that he is the first to spend time in the space station. According to an article I read they will be checking to see if he reacts differently to radiation.
MOSTAFA
Suck it up, buttercup...
RAF-Trained Pilot Prepares For Shuttle Mission To Space Station
...Nick Patrick even took a RAF ensign with him to the ISS when he went there in the Space Shuttle in 2006.
LJ
Suck it up, buttercup...
RAF-Trained Pilot Prepares For Shuttle Mission To Space Station
”I am delighted to be able to take the RAF flag into space – I learned to fly with the RAF while studying engineering at Cambridge and feel the Service encouraged my love of flying and I have been flying ever since. Today I am a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and have managed to log more than 1,900 hours in 20 types of aeroplane and helicopter, including 800 as a flight instructor”
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UAS....yep. He must have RAF wings then.
Clearly if you fly with a UAS you get the brevet....the other services have to pass a course.
Sounds very RAF
What a stupid argument.
Clearly if you fly with a UAS you get the brevet....the other services have to pass a course.
Sounds very RAF
What a stupid argument.
Channel 4 News's coverage has a bit more of the technical talk, plus explains that the LES Tower is the first part of the Soyuz stack to be jettisoned (I was wondering what the item was that came off the rocket just before the boosters came off).
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So, Tim is just about to get out his FRC's to run through his pre landing checks ... MFFHHB and all that ... Happy Landing and well done on what appears to have been a very successful mission ... Especially as far as inspiring the younger generation with the science and engineering aspects of space flight.
Well done that man
Well done that man
ORAC, he is a graduate of the Central Flying School and a graduate of ETPS albeit, I don't think he or any of them come to that, have much piloting to do either going, or coming back.
What precisely is it with comments like that? If it's supposed to be banter it isn't.
Good luck Tim and well done mate, maybe a beer or 2 in town next month.
What precisely is it with comments like that? If it's supposed to be banter it isn't.
Good luck Tim and well done mate, maybe a beer or 2 in town next month.
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Cor, six months already, wonder if it has gone as quickly for him...?
I was listening to Helen Sharman talking about the landing, which by all accounts is pretty bone-shaking. She said they were briefed to make sure they were not talking as they were landing as there was a very real danger of biting their tongues off! Good luck Tim and the others!
ORAC - I thought your comment was ok. A reference I assume to the early RFC days when the observer (an officer) sat in the back and a corporal sat in the front and drove the thing
ORAC - I thought your comment was ok. A reference I assume to the early RFC days when the observer (an officer) sat in the back and a corporal sat in the front and drove the thing
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MOSTAFA, it is called humour, but it appears to have gone straight over your head, a bit like Tim Peake, on multiple occasions each day 
Good luck on descent Tim, stay safe
Good luck on descent Tim, stay safe
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ORAC, he is a graduate of the Central Flying School and a graduate of ETPS albeit, I don't think he or any of them come to that, have much piloting to do either going, or coming back.
What precisely is it with comments like that? If it's supposed to be banter it isn't.
What precisely is it with comments like that? If it's supposed to be banter it isn't.
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Have you ever seen weightless Labrador poo? and just think of the 6 month supply of poo bags.
Lifting the Lab into space wouldn't be that difficult, after all they lifted SkyLab, but just imagine the logistics in getting the tree or lamp post up there too.
You obviously haven't thought it through Two's In.
Lifting the Lab into space wouldn't be that difficult, after all they lifted SkyLab, but just imagine the logistics in getting the tree or lamp post up there too.
You obviously haven't thought it through Two's In.
Lifting the Lab into space wouldn't be that difficult, after all they lifted SkyLab, but just imagine the logistics in getting the tree or lamp post up there too.
