15/12/2015 Newsround


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Good morning, Ricky here with Newsround on this

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Five. Four. Three. Two. One! Blastoff!

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Good morning, Ricky here with Newsround on this

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You can see the crowds that waved off British Astronaut Tim Peake

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and the other two astronauts as they left their hotel in

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In less than three hours, Tim will make history and will be

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on his way to the International Space Station.

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He's about to board a bus to the 50-metre rocket,

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its engines will roar into action at 11am,

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the boosters will flare and the three man crew

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Ayshah's at Tim Peake's old primary school in Sutton in Greater London

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with some of the pupils who're watching the launch later.

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It's launch day. We are so ridiculously excited. Nowhere more

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so than Tim Peak's old primary school. He's walked the very halls.

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Exciting stuff. Big celebrations. They've been here since 6 o'clock

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this morning. I've some kids with me right now, pupils at this school.

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How excited are you that Tim's from this school? Really excited, it's

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really inspiring because he walked in our classrooms and he sat there

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and he went in the hall, and now he's the first British man to go in

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the International Space Station which is really cool. It's very

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cool. How are you feeling about it? Really excited. The fact that he's

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going into space is amazing. Has it inspired you to be an astronaut. No,

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but it's inspired me to aim high and to go for goals.

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Great stuff. What do you think is the most thing that you are most

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excited ability? The opening of the gates. What are you most excited

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about? The launch. I'll be here watching at about 11 o'clock with

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this lot. See you then. The BBC's Sarah Rainsford

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is at the launch site and just He's already arrived at the dream.

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He sent tweets saying he's good to go for the mission. In the next half

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hour, he'll be putting on his space suit and saying his farewells to his

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family. Heading here for the launch pad behind me where the Soyuz rocket

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is already in place. Once up there, he says he'll carry out more than

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265 experiments, hoping to inspire a generation of scientists for the

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future. Tim has been underwater for hours to

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prepare for space walks. Tim hopes his mission can inspire kids to

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become astronauts and space scientists in the future, but where

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did the fascination for space exploration start? This is the first

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rocket to reach the boundary of space. The German spaceship

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travelled into the atmosphere. No-one knew how the human body would

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react in space, so in 1947, tests were carried out. Two years later, a

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monkey called Albert flew into space. Further animals followed

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until 1957 when Russia launched the first satellite to orbit around the

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earth. It was called a Sputnik I. There was a battle to get the first

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spacecraft on the moon between the Americans and the Russians. The

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Russians put the first man into space, Uri goo Guarin. Russia were

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winning the race so the US President, JFK made a promise. I

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believe this makes should achieve the goal before the decade is out,

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of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

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-- Gagarin. A robot spaceship landed on the moon in 1966 and sent amazing

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photos back. These pictures helped scientists work out how men could

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land safely there. Finally they made it. In 1969, America's Apollo 11

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blasted off, flying 250,000 miles to the moon.

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One small step for man... Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made

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history. Lots of missions followed, the Americans landed a special car

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to explore the surface. Since then, the fascination with space has grown

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and technology's getting better every day.

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There have been robots on Mars, a probe's been landed on a comet to

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take photos of distant moons and planets in the far-reaches. We've

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developed shuttles that have travelled at 17,000mph and built the

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International Space Station that's orbited our planet for 15 years.

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That's where Major Tim Peak will carry out experts, to try to inspire

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children to become astronauts and scientists in the future when it's

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hoped people will one day be able to visit other planets like Mars.

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Head over to the Newsround website, to find out minute by minute

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what he's doing today and more on what he'll be doing once

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