Tim Peake

Philippa Flanagan-Smith Tears held together by surface tension, zero-G tortillas, Star Trek cosplays — the International Space Station (ISS) has produced a plethora of entertaining and informing content about life in space since its launch in November 1998. A quick Google search brings up thousands of results about how...

The ‘Principia’ Mission is a part of the wider Human Spaceflight Programme of the European Space Agency and the first of its kind to be directly affiliated with the British Government. As to whether or not this renders the mission productive, the answer may seem obvious. After all, according...

43 year old Tim Peake from Chichester, West Sussex became the first British man in space having blasted off at 11:03 GMT on 15th December from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The Soyuz capsule docked with the International Space Station at 17:34 GMT and, after 3 and a half hours of...