15/12/2015 Newsround


15/12/2015

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Good morning, Ricky here with Newsround on this

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In less than three and a half hours, British Astronaut Tim Peake

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will make history and be on his way to the International Space Station.

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The engines on the 50 foot rocket will roar into action,

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the boosters will flare and the three-man crew will be

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forced back into the their seats as they're hurled into orbit.

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Five. Four. Team Peak had to do a special five-week course learning

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how to space walk in a space suit. Four. The International Space

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Station's 400 kilometres above the earth. Three. Tim gets to pick three

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songs to listen to just before launch. Two. Two seeks in isolation

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before he blasts off. One. He'll be the first British astronaut to live

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on board the ISS. Blastoff! We have lift-off.

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This is Tim Peake leaving the Cosmonaught Hotel in Bakinour

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in Kazakhstan a few minutes ago; he has signed a door

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Now he's got his last round of medical checks,

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he'll put on his space suit and say goodbye to his family.

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But Tim can only be part of this mission because he's been

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He's very fit, had lots of medical checks, and has pushed his body

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He's been underwater for hours to prepare for space walks.

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He's also trained his body to cope with huge amounts of pressure

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It's supposed to be the same as six people standing on you.

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Tim hopes his mission can inspire kids to become astronauts and space

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But where did the fascination for exploring space all start?

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Let's take a look. This is the first rocket to reach the boundary of

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space. The German B2 travelled 100 kilometres up into the earth's

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atmosphere. No-one knew how the human body would react in space, so

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in 1947, tests were carried out. Two years later, it was the turn of a

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monkey called Albert. Further animals followed until 1957 when

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Russia launched the first ever satellite to orbit around the earth.

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It was called Sputnik I. American and Russian scientists battled it

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out to get the first place on the moon. In 1961, the Russes put the

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first man into space. Cosmonaut Uri goo Guarin. The US President John F

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Kennedy made a promise. I believe this nation should commit itself to

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achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on

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the moon and returning him safely to earth. In 1966, amazing photos were

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sent back from the moon. Scientists were trying to work out how to land

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safely there. Finally they made it in 1969. Apollo 11 blasted off,

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flying 250,000 miles to the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made

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history in July. The Americans landed a special car to explore its

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surface. Since then, the fascination with space has grown and

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technology's getting better every day. There have been robots on Mars,

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a probe has been landed on a comet to take photos of distant moons and

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planets in the far-reaches of our solar system.

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The International Space Station's orbited our planet for 15 years,

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that's where Major Tim Peak is going to carry out experts, he's going to

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try to encourage people to become astronauts and scientists in the

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future when it's hoped one day they'll be able to visit other plan

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es like Mars. Head over to the Newsround website,

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to find out minute by minute what he's doing today and more

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about the experiments he'll be doing

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