:00:13. > :00:20.A British astronaut and a successful launch. At 11 o'clock this morning,
:00:21. > :00:25.Tim Peake began his journey to become the first British astronaut
:00:26. > :00:29.on the International Space Station. It was an extraordinary morning but
:00:30. > :00:34.it has been an even more exciting afternoon. Not everything has gone
:00:35. > :00:38.to plan. What was meant to be a routine moment with the Soyuz
:00:39. > :00:45.spacecraft docking with the International Space Station, turned
:00:46. > :00:50.out to be anything but. This is what happened to hours ago. He seems to
:00:51. > :01:00.be backing away. There has been an abort. He is off axis. They had to
:01:01. > :01:06.resort to docking manually. We will bring you the moment when Tim boards
:01:07. > :01:11.the space station. I am Brian Cox and this is Dara O'Briain and this
:01:12. > :01:42.is Stargazing Live: Brit in Space! Hello and welcome to the Science
:01:43. > :01:48.Museum in London where thousands of people have come to enjoy Tim peat's
:01:49. > :01:53.arrival at the International Space Station, and what an arrival.
:01:54. > :01:59.Joining us now is someone who knows all about the perils of space
:02:00. > :02:04.travel, a man who spent 166 days in space, has flown a Soyuz spacecraft
:02:05. > :02:11.and a space shuttle, and has commanded the space station, please
:02:12. > :02:14.welcome Chris Hadfield! CHEERING
:02:15. > :02:18.Chris, welcome back. We saw there that Tim has just about docked with
:02:19. > :02:24.the International Space Station. You have been there before. What is it
:02:25. > :02:27.like in the Soyuz now, waiting to open that hatch? It is every
:02:28. > :02:31.Christmas eve you have ever had in your life. You know what is about to
:02:32. > :02:35.happen. You understand the process but at the same time you haven't
:02:36. > :02:40.quite got there yet. They have changed out of their pressure suits
:02:41. > :02:45.into probably matching blue flight suits. They are waiting to when the
:02:46. > :02:50.final pressure check is done, so they can open the hatch and float
:02:51. > :02:56.into their ultimate destination, the space station. We will see great
:02:57. > :02:59.happiness, I suppose. They all know each other? They have all trained
:03:00. > :03:06.together and spent years together at Star City. It is not just a visible
:03:07. > :03:10.moment, and a significant professional moment, but it is a
:03:11. > :03:14.personal moment for each member of the crew. Is it a nervous wait or is
:03:15. > :03:22.it satisfying now that the docking is safely done? The launch was the
:03:23. > :03:26.most dangerous. The docking was the most complex for the crew but both
:03:27. > :03:30.of those are behind them now. Now it is a matter of the horse is in the
:03:31. > :03:36.gate and we're just waiting until they can get away with the next six
:03:37. > :03:41.months of work. While we wait for that moment when Tim came through
:03:42. > :03:46.the hatch, let's relive the moment of how he got there with the crowds
:03:47. > :03:48.at the scene and on the ground at Baikonur.
:03:49. > :03:59.It is fair to say leaving the surface of a planet is not something
:04:00. > :04:05.you do in a rush. Good luck, Tim! Tim's morning was one of checks and
:04:06. > :04:13.double checks. There was still time for a farewell to his family. An
:04:14. > :04:17.emotional time for all of them. In Chichester, Tim's home town, the
:04:18. > :04:23.crowds gathered. And we were joined at the Science Museum by thousands
:04:24. > :04:35.of schoolchildren. Good luck, Tim! The tension was building. Ten, nine,
:04:36. > :04:47.eight... And then at 11:03am and ten seconds... Three, two, one! And Tim
:04:48. > :04:53.is a way! Go, Tim! The sound of it, the sight of it, it
:04:54. > :04:57.is brilliant, it is like it is alive! There was time to celebrate
:04:58. > :05:07.here at the Science Museum. And around the country. Nine minutes
:05:08. > :05:10.after liftoff the engine was cut and the astronauts were suddenly
:05:11. > :05:20.weightless. Tim had made it into orbit. We had a Brit on his way to
:05:21. > :05:24.the International Space Station. It was so exciting and I wish I was
:05:25. > :05:29.there with Tim Peake. So happy that it went safely and I hope he has a
:05:30. > :05:35.good Christmas there. The question is, what is happening
:05:36. > :05:41.now on the ISS? They docked around 5:30pm. How long does it take for
:05:42. > :05:49.all the checks to take place? About 90 minutes. Also, Jiri will put the
:05:50. > :05:56.Soyuz to sleep. Part of the things he will be doing is shutting down
:05:57. > :06:00.the systems to a long-term storage moment, so that at any minute, if
:06:01. > :06:05.there was a problem, they could race into the Soyuz, close the hatch and
:06:06. > :06:09.they would be ready to go. We saw a couple of problems on the way to the
:06:10. > :06:15.docking. Will that affect anything in terms of opening the hatch? What
:06:16. > :06:25.we think we know if they had some sort of thrust a problem. We will
:06:26. > :06:28.wait until the technicians in Moscow have had a look to see what went
:06:29. > :06:31.wrong with the Soyuz. They may have to fly home integrated mode, change
:06:32. > :06:38.the software, we will have to wait and see. Fly home in a degraded
:06:39. > :06:43.mode. Very relaxed! Tim Peake will be answering some of the questions
:06:44. > :06:48.you put to him before he blasted off later, but first, here is a quick
:06:49. > :06:52.look at more about him. It is not often you find someone
:06:53. > :06:59.like Tim Peake. Husband, father, military test pilot. I guess I am an
:07:00. > :07:04.ordinary person who is fortunate enough to do an extraordinary job.
:07:05. > :07:10.Being an astronaut sounds cool but living and working in a handful of
:07:11. > :07:14.sealed boxes for six takes a unique mindset. To be an astronaut, firstly
:07:15. > :07:21.you have to be passionate about what you are doing. You have to be able
:07:22. > :07:26.to get on with people in a multicultural environment and
:07:27. > :07:33.working in confined spaces. Tim was one of only six European hopefuls
:07:34. > :07:39.chosen from a field of 10,000 applicants. Sometimes you have to
:07:40. > :07:43.pinch or self. I am going to try and enjoy every moment of it. Just to
:07:44. > :07:48.experience the launch, the re-entry and living and working in space will
:07:49. > :07:53.be a wonderful feeling. As is or earlier, it takes nine
:07:54. > :07:59.minutes to get into orbit. We have lost a little bit of sound there. I
:08:00. > :08:06.was going to say then the tricky part begins. Essentially, the
:08:07. > :08:11.docking has to happen. We have a graphic here. Easy in principle. If
:08:12. > :08:15.you want to catch something on the ground, you press the accelerator
:08:16. > :08:20.and speed up. In space, that is difficult because your altitude is
:08:21. > :08:25.linked to your orbital speed. If you want to catch and other spacecraft
:08:26. > :08:30.up, what you have to do is you also increase your altitude. If you're
:08:31. > :08:36.not careful, you will miss. Chris, you have done this, actually. Can
:08:37. > :08:41.you run through how that docking happens? They are firing the engines
:08:42. > :08:45.on the Soyuz and they started out well below the station as they
:08:46. > :08:49.slowly caught up to it and the closer they got, the higher they
:08:50. > :08:53.made their orbit, until they were in the vicinity of the station and then
:08:54. > :08:57.it is a matter of manoeuvring around to line up perfectly with the
:08:58. > :09:03.docking port that they went to. But as they closed in and got closer and
:09:04. > :09:08.closer with the automatic system, something went wrong. As we will
:09:09. > :09:13.see. Eventually, they got the problem sorted, but it perfectly
:09:14. > :09:18.lined up and came in and docked. This is to scale, this little tiny
:09:19. > :09:24.Soyuz, into dock with the space station. It is a counter intuitive
:09:25. > :09:30.type of motion. If you put your foot on the gas, you will go up high. If
:09:31. > :09:34.you were just to fire these thrusters on the back, to push
:09:35. > :09:38.straight at the station, it moves you closer but it changes the circle
:09:39. > :09:44.of your orbit, so what it looks like to you is you are rising up and then
:09:45. > :09:48.suddenly, your orbit is bigger so you fall back. It is a really
:09:49. > :09:56.counterintuitive thing and you have to anticipate the problems and it
:09:57. > :09:59.requires a bunch of practice. It makes it all the more remarkable to
:10:00. > :10:06.see what we will see in a moment, which is Yuri taking the controls.
:10:07. > :10:10.That is not what we got today. At five o'clock this afternoon we
:10:11. > :10:15.started seeing these stunning images from the International Space
:10:16. > :10:19.Station, looking down as Tim's spacecraft was approaching. At
:10:20. > :10:24.first, this all seemed to be going to plan, but then slowly, everything
:10:25. > :10:30.changed. It is now 16 minutes past five and
:10:31. > :10:36.the ISS is directly over London. You can see the thrusters firing as the
:10:37. > :10:43.vehicle is making the final corrections. It seems to be backing
:10:44. > :10:51.away. It is backing away. There has been an abort. This here means
:10:52. > :10:59.emergency. The large engines are firing. The vehicle, for whatever
:11:00. > :11:02.reason, has decided there is a problem so it is backing away so now
:11:03. > :11:09.they will have to solve the problem, to figure out what caused it so they
:11:10. > :11:14.will give it to Yuri. Is that relatively routine? It may be
:11:15. > :11:19.happens ten or 20% of the time that we have to do a manual docking. It
:11:20. > :11:24.could have been a thruster fail. It could have been one of the antenna
:11:25. > :11:33.giving spurious information. They may let the computer try it again or
:11:34. > :11:38.they may say Yuri, let's bring it in manually and docket. This here means
:11:39. > :11:50.Yuri has activated his manual controls. He has punched it up to
:11:51. > :11:54.half a metre a second closure. He has backed away again. Right now he
:11:55. > :12:03.is off axis so he is probably backing away again. He may be at the
:12:04. > :12:11.point where he has to do the whole thing manually, so Tim Kopra and Tim
:12:12. > :12:18.Peake, Tim will be holding the book open, it will be completely manual
:12:19. > :12:23.activities. This is why you need pilots! This is why you need great
:12:24. > :12:31.test pilots. Yes, we are very careful who we choose? Could they
:12:32. > :12:37.are bought and returned to Earth? At any point they could return to
:12:38. > :12:47.Earth. All of our feeds have gone now. They will be crossing over mum
:12:48. > :12:54.by. They are closing in the dock. -- Mumbai. Only 15 minutes ago they
:12:55. > :13:01.were over London. In another ten minutes we will be over Perth.
:13:02. > :13:17.They have got to go for docking. Stand-by for contact. Contact has
:13:18. > :13:25.been confirmed. Contact. Confirm contact. Congratulations. Waiting
:13:26. > :13:28.for capture. And capture. We have capture! We have docked with the
:13:29. > :13:35.space station! All right! APPLAUSE
:13:36. > :13:39.We were a lot more nervous than you were. You have been through that
:13:40. > :13:51.before, docking with the Soviet space station Mir 20 years ago. It
:13:52. > :13:57.was 20 years and a month ago that we docked with the Russian space
:13:58. > :14:00.station Mir. We got to similar circumstances where the automated
:14:01. > :14:05.system started giving us bad information so we actually had to
:14:06. > :14:10.take over and just use a wristwatch and a handwritten piece of paper and
:14:11. > :14:14.just my thumb to look at what part of the space station was a certain
:14:15. > :14:20.length and just eyeball it all the way in to bring it in and dock the
:14:21. > :14:25.space shuttle Atlantis to Mir. I think we have the video of you doing
:14:26. > :14:30.that. There is Mir on the left and the docking system on the right. You
:14:31. > :14:36.did that with your thumbs so you know how big your thumb is? I know
:14:37. > :14:42.that is one metre, five metres, so I just estimated it. It was a very
:14:43. > :14:47.focused moment on board the space shuttle. That was my first flight. I
:14:48. > :14:52.was the only rookie on that crew but I was the guy in charge of ranging.
:14:53. > :14:56.It was not something we were unprepared for. It was not something
:14:57. > :15:01.we expected but we trained and prepared and spent a lot of our
:15:02. > :15:05.lives getting ready. It is worth saying that you said it looks
:15:06. > :15:07.dramatic to the outside bet you were saying Yuri did that yesterday and
:15:08. > :15:22.the day before, he is used to it. They have been in quarantine for two
:15:23. > :15:24.weeks. They have assimilated and quarantine, simple but enough so
:15:25. > :15:27.that the instructors can give their malfunction is and they can make
:15:28. > :15:33.sure their skills are as fresh as they can be. We can only imagine how
:15:34. > :15:33.dramatic it was for the friends and family. Dallas Campbell is in
:15:34. > :15:46.Baikonur. It has been fantastic. We had a few
:15:47. > :16:00.moments of tension. The Ford Ka has been flowing freely. -- vodka. I
:16:01. > :16:04.would point out we are no longer in the cosmodrome, in Baikonur town.
:16:05. > :16:11.We're in the municipal hall where everyone has done, the friends,
:16:12. > :16:16.family of the astronauts. If you swing the camera around, you might
:16:17. > :16:20.get the look of everyone up there. I am going to be interviewing and
:16:21. > :16:27.talking to some of those people a little later on. Nervous times for
:16:28. > :16:31.them. We are still waiting for the big moment when the hatch will open.
:16:32. > :16:37.We will hopefully have it for you before the end of the programme.
:16:38. > :16:43.Right now he will be in the Soyuz trying to get used to be sensation.
:16:44. > :16:49.How many people envy him and would like to go into space at some stage?
:16:50. > :16:55.Most of us have. You still want to go back up and do more. How many of
:16:56. > :17:04.you with raise your hands after you have seen this? So far the launch
:17:05. > :17:10.has been the most erratic part of Tim's and a. For his body, the drama
:17:11. > :17:16.is just beginning. Now he is in orbit, it is under attack from
:17:17. > :17:26.space. And attacked him has been training hard to resist. -- an
:17:27. > :17:32.attack Tim. I am doing an exercise protocol on a bike machine. On board
:17:33. > :17:36.we have a cycle machine, a treadmill and a multi gym which uses vacuum
:17:37. > :17:43.cylinders to give us weight training. On earth, going to the gym
:17:44. > :17:46.is not a matter of life and death. In space it is an essential activity
:17:47. > :17:52.which stops to withering away and could even save your life.
:17:53. > :17:57.Everything you see about the human body is designed to work optimally
:17:58. > :18:05.in one gene. Our bones and muscles operate the way they do. Living
:18:06. > :18:10.bones are constantly being broken down and rebuilt, according to where
:18:11. > :18:17.the body feels forced being exerted. Less force means less Kneebone. In
:18:18. > :18:26.space flight we have a situation where don't is removed and new bone
:18:27. > :18:33.is not performed in its place. It is not just bones. Muscles will lose
:18:34. > :18:39.size and strength as well. Nasa have recorded muscle mass reduction of
:18:40. > :18:45.about 15% and power muscle 30% during stints in space. Without
:18:46. > :18:50.exercise that this could be as much as 20% of mass in just a week. That
:18:51. > :18:55.is bad news for the most important muscle of them all, the heart. Your
:18:56. > :19:00.heart has an easy time pumping blood around your body. The muscle itself
:19:01. > :19:09.shrinks. If you did nothing to stop that, you would be in very bad shape
:19:10. > :19:14.when you return to Earth. Body fluid freed from the rigour of gravity
:19:15. > :19:19.will also misbehave. Around two litres of it moves from the legs to
:19:20. > :19:25.the chest and head. Because of this, Tim Mace suffered the twin
:19:26. > :19:32.indignities of acquiring a puffy face and skinny legs. -- may suffer.
:19:33. > :19:38.The increase of pressure inside his skull may result in space headaches
:19:39. > :19:42.and could crush his optic nerve resulting in blurred vision. Neither
:19:43. > :19:46.of these phenomena are fully understood, they occur in some
:19:47. > :19:50.astronauts and not others. Understanding all the aspects of
:19:51. > :19:56.living in microgravity is important when it comes to longer range space
:19:57. > :20:01.travel. The question is, what dated we need to fill in the gaps to allow
:20:02. > :20:07.us to say we are confident we will know what happens to astronauts
:20:08. > :20:11.during a 3-5-year mission to Mars. Another reason why Tim needed to be
:20:12. > :20:17.fit before he went and needs to stay fit while he is there. The most
:20:18. > :20:23.important experiment on the ISS are the astronauts themselves.
:20:24. > :20:32.I should just say we are hoping the hatch will be open in 5-10 minutes'
:20:33. > :20:37.time. No one could not even Baikonur, has pictures from the ISS
:20:38. > :20:42.at the moment. We saw how difficult it is physically to go into space
:20:43. > :20:49.and then come back again. First of all, into space. Tim has been out
:20:50. > :20:53.there for 6-7 hours. What will he be feeling? Imagine if they shut
:20:54. > :20:59.gravity off right now for you, you would come floating off the floor.
:21:00. > :21:05.It would be hilarious and fun and liberating and tumbling. Pretty soon
:21:06. > :21:16.you would start to feel nor shirts and your body would stop filling
:21:17. > :21:20.your skeleton. -- nauseous. Tim is probably feeling disoriented and
:21:21. > :21:25.clumsy. Fluid is starting to shift to his head so he is probably
:21:26. > :21:28.developing a sinus headache. He is also exhilarated with the
:21:29. > :21:32.experience. It is all of those things happening at once and it will
:21:33. > :21:39.take a day to start to settle down and probably a week to get good at
:21:40. > :21:47.flying around the spaceship. Yuri is on his sixth flight now. His body,
:21:48. > :21:53.this is something his body knows from history. His adaptation, if
:21:54. > :21:58.other people are an indication, will be pretty quick. For Tim, it is a
:21:59. > :22:03.different story. It is suddenly a very new environment. It will take a
:22:04. > :22:10.little while before he will adapt. Will he expect to be a bit clumsy?
:22:11. > :22:15.When we see Tim come through the hatch and we watch him on video,
:22:16. > :22:23.watch how he moves compared with how you remove all the guys that have
:22:24. > :22:29.been up there a few months move. -- Yuri. Some will be more clumsy than
:22:30. > :22:35.others. Like someone on the eyes for the first time. You have to cling to
:22:36. > :22:41.someone else until you get your feet. It takes some getting used to.
:22:42. > :22:48.On the ground, how long does it take to get used to gravity again? Your
:22:49. > :22:53.body forgets what to do with the weight of gravity. Your balance
:22:54. > :22:57.system is shot. If you stand up, you kind of tumble over. Your heart has
:22:58. > :23:04.forgotten how to lift the blood to your head. You faint if you stand
:23:05. > :23:11.up. We have footage of you in 2013 after your five month trip. It is a
:23:12. > :23:21.fairly hefty landing, isn't it? It is. The rescue queues are there. --
:23:22. > :23:29.the rescue crews. You are delighted to be home. You do not want to use
:23:30. > :23:38.emulator self to be to nor shirts. -- stimulate yourself. You need a
:23:39. > :23:43.couple of good sleep. We landed in Scotland for gas. I felt quite a bit
:23:44. > :23:47.better by the time we landed there. I landed once in the United States
:23:48. > :23:52.and then to Houston. By the time I got to Houston, I was walking and
:23:53. > :24:00.talking a cave. Within a couple of days I felt reasonable. It took
:24:01. > :24:05.months to truly get my body back. -- walking and talking OK. Running took
:24:06. > :24:11.four months before that felt completely normal. My skeleton was
:24:12. > :24:17.the slowest thing. I had lost about 8% of the bone across my hip. It
:24:18. > :24:26.took about 18 months for that bone to get hard again. It was a lot of
:24:27. > :24:32.interest to the medical community. This is the International Space
:24:33. > :24:40.Station. Where would he have docked? One place for the space shuttle to
:24:41. > :24:45.dock and a lot of the resupply ship. Soyuz can dock here on top or can
:24:46. > :24:52.come around and Doctor one of the two ports underneath or they can
:24:53. > :24:58.dock at the back. -- dock at one. Here is where they are docked right
:24:59. > :25:03.now. When they have all the checks done, they will open the hatch and
:25:04. > :25:11.enter the station. The earth is down here... The Earth is below us and
:25:12. > :25:16.the sky above. This segment is usually forward. This is kind of the
:25:17. > :25:23.way it looks. If you were a battleship or starship, this is how
:25:24. > :25:26.the station looks. If you want to do some astronomy, you have to get
:25:27. > :25:33.positioned onto Windows looking this way to see the universe. If you want
:25:34. > :25:39.to do astronomy with your eyes can you need to look at the hatch is
:25:40. > :25:45.through the top. On this platform out here, there is a payload that
:25:46. > :25:50.looks at x-rays, to look at x-ray transmitting stars. Over here is the
:25:51. > :25:59.Arther magnetic spectrometer which is collecting subatomic particles.
:26:00. > :26:07.These are the first pictures live from inside the space station. We
:26:08. > :26:13.are looking down the tunnel at the hatch that leads to the Soyuz,
:26:14. > :26:24.straight down at the Earth along the tunnel. Inside that module, at the
:26:25. > :26:33.hatch underneath. OK. Ironically this is not a great place to look at
:26:34. > :26:38.the stars. It is almost like looking at the stars from inside your home.
:26:39. > :26:43.You hardly ever get the lights of long enough in order to really get a
:26:44. > :26:47.good look at the sky. We do not make the whole space station dark. We go
:26:48. > :26:53.around the world so quickly that you do not have very long in the dark to
:26:54. > :26:58.look at it. I think we will go over to Dallas in Baikonur now. How are
:26:59. > :27:05.things there? It is terrific here. We are waiting for the hatch to
:27:06. > :27:12.open. Can you hear me now? OK. Perfect sorry, we had a bit of a
:27:13. > :27:19.sound problem. I am joined by two people who know Tim very well. This
:27:20. > :27:25.is Tim's sister and Tim's best man. I will post because I think the
:27:26. > :27:30.hatch is going to open in a minute. We will just chat for a minute. The
:27:31. > :27:33.owner, how was your day-to-day question what it must have been
:27:34. > :27:38.incredibly emotional. -- Fiona. question what it must have been
:27:39. > :27:43.has been everything he has worked for. He has trained really hard for
:27:44. > :27:47.this. It could not have gone better. The weather was beautiful and there
:27:48. > :27:54.was no wind, far better than I thought it would be. Were you
:27:55. > :27:59.nervous at all? Once you get here, it seems to be a day-to-day routine
:28:00. > :28:02.job. Everyone seems to know what they are doing and everything
:28:03. > :28:13.slotted into place when we got here, I think. Tell me a bit about him as
:28:14. > :28:20.a person. You are his best man. He is a fabulous guy. The guys in the
:28:21. > :28:23.studio have met him. He is cool, calm, collected, extremely good fun,
:28:24. > :28:29.the most relaxed guy you could ever meet. He is the most brilliant
:28:30. > :28:36.ambassador for science and education. His commitment to that is
:28:37. > :28:43.unparalleled, isn't it? He is passionate about it. A manned space
:28:44. > :28:49.flight, this is key to him. I will pause now. I think it is time for
:28:50. > :28:56.the hatch. We think it is about to happen because he has a tool in his
:28:57. > :29:01.hand. In his left hand is the mechanism, the wrench he will plug
:29:02. > :29:08.in to the driving mechanism and open the hatch. This is Scott Kelly in
:29:09. > :29:14.the front. He is up there for a year. You can see the hatch being
:29:15. > :29:20.opened. Scott noticed where he was flowing. You can see cameras at the
:29:21. > :29:31.ready. Do we know what order they will appear in? It is really up to
:29:32. > :29:40.Yuri Malenchenko. You guess that they might send Tim through first?
:29:41. > :29:49.Because he is the rookie, they may. It depends how he is feeling. We are
:29:50. > :29:57.about to watch a man doing a selfie on the International Space Station.
:29:58. > :30:06.So, Yuri Malenchenko will be on, also Tim Kopra as well. This means
:30:07. > :30:11.that we know everything is fine for that they have gone ahead. All the
:30:12. > :30:16.seals are correct. They have completed all the pressure checks.
:30:17. > :30:21.When the space patient and the Soyuz came together, they trapped a bit of
:30:22. > :30:25.space in between the two of them. They had to make sure all the seals
:30:26. > :30:29.were working. It is a liberal warrior is processed. That averages
:30:30. > :30:38.had to equalise. All of that has gone well. There is one that your
:30:39. > :30:47.ree has probably be cranking on the inside. -- Yuri has probably been
:30:48. > :30:53.cranking. They are about to pull the hatch all the weight open. It is
:30:54. > :30:58.almost time for Tim to enter the International Space Station.
:30:59. > :31:12.Who is it going to be? They have the same question, who is it going to
:31:13. > :31:18.be? They will be ready to stretch. They are also smelling the Soyuz!
:31:19. > :31:23.The smell has just floated in. It is interesting that there is more stale
:31:24. > :31:29.air in the Soyuz down in the ISS. The space station has a terrific
:31:30. > :31:37.aero freshening system but the Soyuz, not so much. Seems like they
:31:38. > :31:44.want to get all the photographs. I bet Yuri is saying, had you got the
:31:45. > :31:51.camera ready? It all seems very mundane now! You said the astronauts
:31:52. > :31:55.would have been going about their business. The command of the space
:31:56. > :32:00.station would have been very closely following what is going on but for
:32:01. > :32:03.the other guys, they can't help it, they are just going about their
:32:04. > :32:07.business so they would not be wasting their time. They would be
:32:08. > :32:14.doing experiments waiting until this point. They would have been busy
:32:15. > :32:17.until five minutes ago. What is the first conversation after they have
:32:18. > :32:22.greeted each other and said hello. They will have a quick discussion
:32:23. > :32:25.about what to do in case of an emergency. If there was a
:32:26. > :32:30.depressurisation or a fire or anything else, who would go to which
:32:31. > :32:37.Soyuz, who is in command, who will make the decisions, which page on
:32:38. > :32:41.the check list will be go for this consideration. It seems subtle. We
:32:42. > :32:49.may lose those pictures as they essentially do a safety briefing? We
:32:50. > :32:52.know in Baikonur there is Tim's wife and mother. They seem very relaxed.
:32:53. > :32:58.I suppose they are feeding off the fact that the astronauts are very
:32:59. > :33:03.relaxed. I bet they are very tired. It has been a long day for the
:33:04. > :33:14.family. It is nearly midnight in Kazakhstan. They will know when they
:33:15. > :33:18.are finally in. Wants the hatches open, a journey which began decades
:33:19. > :33:26.ago when Tim started dreaming about this, will arrive at its destination
:33:27. > :33:32.so his mother will breathe a sigh of relief at multiple levels. Tim has
:33:33. > :33:36.been training since 2009. That he did not just start thinking about
:33:37. > :33:42.this six years ago, it has been in his mind for a long time so it has
:33:43. > :33:45.been a long road for this destination. You mentioned the
:33:46. > :33:53.safety briefing, a meteorite impact is likely to happen -- is as likely
:33:54. > :34:05.to happen now... He had better turnout again. That is interesting
:34:06. > :34:12.just as I said that. May be an alarm has gone off or Moscow is calling
:34:13. > :34:18.them. This is the exterior shot of the docked Soyuz. This is the
:34:19. > :34:23.docking plane where the two of them are touched together. The crew are
:34:24. > :34:27.inside that ball. This is the capsule and Tim Peake's window that
:34:28. > :34:33.he was looking through during the docking. This is the capsule that
:34:34. > :34:37.they will ride home in in June. Seems to have calmed down. They are
:34:38. > :35:05.making calls right now. Can you translate what they are
:35:06. > :35:13.saying? They are reading through some numbers. They may be giving
:35:14. > :35:17.data to Mission control. The language of the launch is Russian,
:35:18. > :35:21.is the language of the International Space Station Russian as well? The
:35:22. > :35:25.official language is English but that does not make everybody
:35:26. > :35:32.bilingual, especially the people on the ground, so we always work in a
:35:33. > :35:37.mixture. The Soyuz is a Russian ship, it flew in Russian. The
:35:38. > :35:43.station is mostly English but it is very much multilingual. What time
:35:44. > :35:47.zone does it observe? It is a compromise between Moscow and
:35:48. > :35:51.Houston, because of all the people that work shift work at mission
:35:52. > :36:02.control so they settled on Greenwich mean Time. They are on the same time
:36:03. > :36:06.as London. Is this usual? Whenever you are crossing any particular
:36:07. > :36:09.threshold of event, you want to make sure you understand everything in
:36:10. > :36:13.advance. It sounded like they needed some day to read down and I'm not
:36:14. > :36:20.sure where the data is coming from, I have not heard any context. So you
:36:21. > :36:25.have no idea how long this will take? They seem to have stopped
:36:26. > :36:30.dashing around with camera lenses. They have not called it off yet. By
:36:31. > :36:34.the fact they are waiting, it indicates it is pretty soon. We can
:36:35. > :36:38.return to this but we will just have a look at what makes the
:36:39. > :36:42.International Space Station one of the most impressive things that
:36:43. > :36:45.humans have ever built. The International Space Station is
:36:46. > :36:58.the largest man-made object in space. It took 13 years, 16
:36:59. > :37:05.countries more than 115 separate space flights, or 100 spacewalking
:37:06. > :37:12.astronauts and one robotic arm. To put together the most expensive
:37:13. > :37:24.simple object ever built. What does $100 billion get you? 14 modules,
:37:25. > :37:31.containing three laboratories, two toilets, one gymnasium, a bit more
:37:32. > :37:35.usable space than your average five bedroom house, and one incredible
:37:36. > :37:46.view. The figure we mentioned there is
:37:47. > :37:52.$100 billion. What are you getting for your $100 billion these days? Of
:37:53. > :37:57.course it is 100 billion invested over the 25 years we have been
:37:58. > :38:01.working on the space station. For me, it is several different things.
:38:02. > :38:06.It is a laboratory which does not exist on Earth. We have run almost
:38:07. > :38:11.2000 experiments up there over the last 15 years. It is an observatory
:38:12. > :38:15.of the universe which is not just temporary but permanent and above
:38:16. > :38:20.the atmosphere. It is an observatory of the world which goes around the
:38:21. > :38:23.world 16 times a day and if we are trying to understand changes about
:38:24. > :38:30.our planet, that is a wonderful perspective. It is also our first
:38:31. > :38:35.permanent step as a species away from the planet. It serves all
:38:36. > :38:42.different purposes as well as being an amazing symbol of cooperation.
:38:43. > :38:48.How important is the engineering, the fact we have built a large
:38:49. > :38:54.structure in the Earth's orbit? It is like when a little kid is sailing
:38:55. > :38:58.its sailboat in a pond remotely. At some point a person starts to sail a
:38:59. > :39:02.sailboat up and down the coast and then they invent and learn and study
:39:03. > :39:07.and figure out all the things they need to do, so that maybe someday
:39:08. > :39:14.they can sail out of sight of land. The station has been orbiting the
:39:15. > :39:17.earth, as if we were sailing within sight of land. What do you make the
:39:18. > :39:21.hole out of? How would you navigate? What food do you need? How would you
:39:22. > :39:29.make a toilet that will last forever? How do you recycle water?
:39:30. > :39:33.How do you recycle oxygen? It is the main crucible test-bed which allows
:39:34. > :39:40.us to grind out the lessons which eventually led us to the moon. I
:39:41. > :39:46.hope it is a pre-waxed it to when we will see an astronaut on Mars -- a
:39:47. > :39:50.prerequisite. I think we will go from there to the moon so we still
:39:51. > :39:55.have the chance to come home in three days if we need be. Obviously,
:39:56. > :40:02.we will return to this the minute we see the hatch doors open. There is
:40:03. > :40:08.some activity there. Many of you have asked how you can spot the
:40:09. > :40:12.space station. It is surprisingly easy. Here is stargazing's Lucie
:40:13. > :40:19.Green on the roof of the Science Museum. I am up here with members of
:40:20. > :40:24.the public and one of temp is a former teachers. We are biting our
:40:25. > :40:30.fingernails waiting for the hatch to open. Having watched the launch live
:40:31. > :40:34.earlier today, we were hoping to spot the space station go directly
:40:35. > :40:37.overhead a couple of hours ago. But unfortunately the great British
:40:38. > :40:41.weather worked against us and we were clouded out. You can probably
:40:42. > :40:47.tell it is raining quite heavily now. But if you have clear skies
:40:48. > :40:50.where you are and you want to go out and spot the space station, it is
:40:51. > :40:55.very easy to do. All you have to do is find out when to go and look and
:40:56. > :41:00.where. There are plenty of websites which can help you with that
:41:01. > :41:01.information. We will come back to Lucie later.
:41:02. > :41:14.The hatch as started to open here. We have opened the station hatch but
:41:15. > :41:20.you can still see the face of the Soyuz Hatch so we have one of the
:41:21. > :41:23.two doors opened. What we are waiting for now is for Yuri to turn
:41:24. > :41:27.the same ratcheting mechanism on his side and then retract and stow the
:41:28. > :41:32.doors of the hatch safely out of the way so that the first of the Soyuz
:41:33. > :41:42.crew, Tim Peake's crew can come through and float into the space
:41:43. > :41:50.station. That will mean Yuri in the Soyuz is the commander. Perhaps the
:41:51. > :41:54.information was something to do with the problems in docking said they
:41:55. > :41:57.wanted to get all the data from the Soyuz system so they could
:41:58. > :42:01.troubleshoot what went wrong with the thrusters so that may have
:42:02. > :42:06.delayed them but they are broke close now to the final step. We are
:42:07. > :42:15.obviously focusing on this. We will, if we can, go back to Lucie and say
:42:16. > :42:21.how you can see the International Space Station. We will focus on that
:42:22. > :42:25.in Stargazing as well. It is interesting that you said you think
:42:26. > :42:31.it is a thrust the problem but we don't know, the point is this
:42:32. > :42:35.spacecraft has got to work again because it has detect someone back
:42:36. > :42:40.to earth which is why they are being careful now. We need this Soyuz to
:42:41. > :42:45.bring Tim and his crew back in June that it needs to be ready every
:42:46. > :42:48.single day, 24 hours a day, so that if there was an emergency on-board,
:42:49. > :42:52.it is their lifeboat, at any moment the crew could have to jump back
:42:53. > :42:57.into the Soyuz so they do not want to have questions about the health
:42:58. > :43:02.of the vehicle so I know Moscow will be working really hard to
:43:03. > :43:05.troubleshoot exactly what caused the docking problem so they know they
:43:06. > :43:13.can safely undock and returned to Earth at any moment in the next six
:43:14. > :43:20.months. Did not like a shift change, how many are there usually on-board?
:43:21. > :43:23.With the Soyuz there are groups of three. You could have six which it
:43:24. > :43:28.will be for the next several months and it could be up to nine,
:43:29. > :43:32.depending on how we do the crew swaps. Typically, on-board the
:43:33. > :43:39.spaceship there are two toilets and six crew members, so it is a pretty
:43:40. > :43:43.good balance! We will go back to the Science Museum Ruth and back to you,
:43:44. > :43:48.Lucie. Hello again. Now is a great time to
:43:49. > :43:52.think about going and spotting the space station. There are a variety
:43:53. > :43:57.of websites you can use and they are all linked from the Stargazing page.
:43:58. > :44:08.Armed with that information, a couple of weeks ago I went with a
:44:09. > :44:11.couple of families to watch the space station flying over.
:44:12. > :44:13.I have come to meet some space fans who have read about rockets and
:44:14. > :44:19.spacecraft 's many time in their books but have never seen a real
:44:20. > :44:27.life working spaceship until now. Who here likes spaceships? Now,
:44:28. > :44:32.tonight we are going to be able to see a real working spaceship, so are
:44:33. > :44:39.you ready to do some spaceship watching? Yes! When the space
:44:40. > :44:43.station passes over the UK, it always appears in the West and heads
:44:44. > :44:49.east across the sky. Those websites which tell you when you can spot the
:44:50. > :44:54.space station say it is due to appear tonight in the south-west at
:44:55. > :44:58.exactly 6:41pm. When the space station comes up it will come up in
:44:59. > :45:03.that part of the sky, so we want to look out for something which is very
:45:04. > :45:08.bright and moving quite fast. How do we know it is not an aeroplane
:45:09. > :45:12.flying over? The way to spot the difference is the fact that the
:45:13. > :45:17.space station doesn't have any flashing lights. It has lights but
:45:18. > :45:20.they are very faint. We don't see the space station because of the
:45:21. > :45:25.lights it has, we see it because the solar panels are flecked in the
:45:26. > :45:29.sun's lights. Even though it is dark down here, the space station is so
:45:30. > :45:32.high up that it is still bathed in sunlight so the best time to see it
:45:33. > :45:47.is always around dusk or dawn. It will come up like this and then
:45:48. > :45:55.up and over the top of the moon. I think I have spotted it. Over to
:45:56. > :46:03.your right and up. There it is, there it is! Excellent. That is the
:46:04. > :46:07.International Space Station. The ISS shines brighter than any other
:46:08. > :46:14.satellite passing ever because it has bigger solar panels reflecting
:46:15. > :46:19.the sun's light. Although it is moving at 17,500 miles an hour, you
:46:20. > :46:24.can usually see the space station for around two to five minutes. The
:46:25. > :46:30.space station is disappearing. I think we should wave goodbye. See
:46:31. > :46:45.you next time. You have not missed anything while you were away. So Gay
:46:46. > :46:52.has his arms -- Sergei has his arms folded. This is the space station
:46:53. > :47:03.moving across the face of the sun. What on Stargazing Live in January
:47:04. > :47:08.and we will tell you how. This question wanting to know how many
:47:09. > :47:13.personal items he was allowed to take up with him. We are allowed to
:47:14. > :47:20.take 1.5 kilograms up on the Soyuz spacecraft. It contains lots of
:47:21. > :47:24.items you might want to give out to other people like patches, pins and
:47:25. > :47:30.LAN yards, all the great things you can say have been flown in space. In
:47:31. > :47:35.terms of personal possessions, I have a great book that Helen Sharman
:47:36. > :47:41.has given me, as well as things from my own family. It is an honour to
:47:42. > :47:49.have Helen Sharman with us, the first UK astronaut in 1991. Helen,
:47:50. > :47:54.first of all, what is special about this book? It is a copy of the book
:47:55. > :48:00.that actually Tim has taken to space. It is one I was given just
:48:01. > :48:05.before my space launch. It is signed by Gagarin. I took it with me into
:48:06. > :48:09.space and the whole crew signed it. I brought it back and have been
:48:10. > :48:13.looking after it carefully ever since. When Tim asked me recently if
:48:14. > :48:17.there was anything of mine he could take into space for me, this book
:48:18. > :48:24.seemed the obvious choice. We're hoping he and his crew will sign it
:48:25. > :48:31.and give it the ISS stamp. White and it will be a tradition for astronaut
:48:32. > :48:40.in the future to sign this book. -- it will be. How long was your
:48:41. > :48:49.mission? Eight days altogether. Not like today. You had a full two days.
:48:50. > :48:55.We also had manual docking. It is like, anything I can do... You said,
:48:56. > :49:02.pretty much that is what happened to us. You went in for an automatic
:49:03. > :49:09.docking. We had to do a manual docking. In the old days, we did not
:49:10. > :49:14.have these fancy systems. It was either manual or automatic, nothing
:49:15. > :49:18.in between. We converted to manual. From 200: it is where we self
:49:19. > :49:26.steered outweighed the space station. You have both been on Mir,
:49:27. > :49:33.the Soviet station. Is it like an old shed compared...? What really
:49:34. > :49:40.delighted me about Mia is the shuttle had not been going there to
:49:41. > :49:48.bring back equipment, it had accumulated old scientific equipment
:49:49. > :49:54.and empty containers. As you floated through Mir, the wind currents
:49:55. > :49:57.through your body, it was like bells clanging behind you. It was like
:49:58. > :50:03.gentle cowbells with you whether you went. Not that this should turn into
:50:04. > :50:11.a Monty Python sketch, you did describe this as being luxurious.
:50:12. > :50:17.You can phone home. We had no GPS phone. We had no e-mail or internet
:50:18. > :50:20.this was 1991. Communications with the ground were very limited. We
:50:21. > :50:25.could only speak to the ground when we were over the soviet union. Over
:50:26. > :50:29.Japan, that was it. No communications until we came back
:50:30. > :50:35.around the other side of the Earth and the soviet union again. That gap
:50:36. > :50:40.between you, there were British astronauts who had to get dual
:50:41. > :50:49.nationality. Why the gap? What do you hope for the future? The gap is
:50:50. > :50:52.because Britain is a country, the Government has not funded human
:50:53. > :50:57.space flight, not since before my space flight. The Government wanted
:50:58. > :51:01.a set of the commercial mission, an Anglo -Soviet mission. It was ahead
:51:02. > :51:07.of its time. It was still not quite there. They were still not funding
:51:08. > :51:11.back in 1991. It has taken this time. We now have an astronaut and
:51:12. > :51:15.we should be looking forward from this. It is really positive that
:51:16. > :51:19.we're prepared to change our minds and find something like this. It is
:51:20. > :51:25.great positive for the longer-term future. It is a statement of intent
:51:26. > :51:30.we have done this. We hope we would be part of the space station and
:51:31. > :51:35.then beyond. I hope so. All we have done is fund one space flight. We
:51:36. > :51:41.have not got any funding to last after that. We are funding human
:51:42. > :51:45.space flight programmes for another couple of years. He will not get
:51:46. > :51:50.another space flight in another couple of years. We need the funding
:51:51. > :51:55.to continue. We are building up a body of science expertise in the UK
:51:56. > :51:58.around human space flight. Engineering, our industry, is
:51:59. > :52:05.getting projects through Europe because we are funding the space
:52:06. > :52:13.flight. I hope very much we continue to fund the European Space Agency.
:52:14. > :52:18.Maybe Tim get a second flight and more return for our science and
:52:19. > :52:22.industry. Four times this year the space station has had to change
:52:23. > :52:27.orbit to avoid pieces of space rubbish. This space debris is a big
:52:28. > :52:35.hazard for the space station as Chris explains. Dead rocket
:52:36. > :52:42.boosters... Spent radioactive material from satellites, even a
:52:43. > :52:49.fellow astronaut's glove. We have left an awful lot of junk in space
:52:50. > :52:57.over the decades. So, as an astronaut, I am grateful for places
:52:58. > :53:03.around the world like this. This is the chill Bolton Observatory. With
:53:04. > :53:08.this, the UK space agency can track our space junk. What we have
:53:09. > :53:10.realised over many years, although the universe is potentially
:53:11. > :53:17.infinite, the space around the Earth is very finite. It shows you a
:53:18. > :53:21.simulation of what we can see in orbit. These range in size from
:53:22. > :53:28.something the size of a mobile phone or the way up to a space station.
:53:29. > :53:33.Over half a million pieces of debris are tracked from Earth. The problem
:53:34. > :53:37.is not just that it is crowded up there, it is that all these objects
:53:38. > :53:46.are hurtling above at over 15,000 miles an hour. That sounds alarming
:53:47. > :53:51.but we have actually got a pretty good handle on where the big stuff
:53:52. > :53:57.is. With enough notice, we can move the ISS to a slightly different
:53:58. > :54:06.orbit to avoid it. It is the stuff we cannot track that really worries
:54:07. > :54:11.astronauts. Because, sooner or later, we are probably going to
:54:12. > :54:17.venture outside the ship with just a space suit on. That is when the
:54:18. > :54:22.objects like this become a threat. This one millimetre steel ball is
:54:23. > :54:26.what most space junk looks like. Although it is tiny, it is
:54:27. > :54:32.potentially lethal. To show how deadly it could be, we need one of
:54:33. > :54:37.the most powerful guns in Britain. This is a piece of plastic, a
:54:38. > :54:42.polycarbonate, typically used in space, for example as a shield
:54:43. > :54:50.across the visor and astronaut might wear. We're going to show a small
:54:51. > :55:00.particle heading towards it. Will the visor survive? A one millimetre
:55:01. > :55:05.object travelling at 14,000 miles an hour has come straight through the
:55:06. > :55:10.front. It has kept going and it's what is potentially an astronaut on
:55:11. > :55:19.the far side. What can we do about the risk? Not much. There is a lot
:55:20. > :55:24.of debris but space is huge and Pfizer 's are pretty small.
:55:25. > :55:33.Fortunately, the odds are very much in our favour. And, let's face it,
:55:34. > :55:37.we would not be astronauts if we ran from every danger, would we? We have
:55:38. > :55:41.we would not be astronauts if we ran still been watching in anticipation.
:55:42. > :55:49.We have seen the commander. You have said it is not entirely that is a
:55:50. > :55:54.comfortable place. In gravity, your handset out in front of you. It is
:55:55. > :55:58.common, the way they are crossing their arms and putting arms behind
:55:59. > :56:03.their head. The blood does not drain out. They float with hands around
:56:04. > :56:08.their knees to keep out of people's way. Relaxing posture becomes
:56:09. > :56:13.different. White Rabbit talking about space debris, we have a couple
:56:14. > :56:21.of photographs you took on a spacewalk. -- Talking about space
:56:22. > :56:28.debris. This big solar array, if you look really closely, this looks like
:56:29. > :56:36.a bullet hole. If you zoom in, there is the solar array. You can see some
:56:37. > :56:44.bullet from the universe came right through. Regularly we get the camera
:56:45. > :56:48.and do a survey so that we can better understand how much threat we
:56:49. > :56:55.are under and how much we get a hole punched. Symantec or by law of
:56:56. > :57:04.averages, things are going to hit a space station. -- By law of
:57:05. > :57:11.averages. Occasionally, one of them has two hit us. Can you hear them
:57:12. > :57:19.when you are on board? The bedroom is right against the hull. Once in a
:57:20. > :57:27.while you hear the noise hitting the metal on the outside. It is reminded
:57:28. > :57:30.you are not at home in bed. My bedroom window and had a meatier
:57:31. > :57:38.impact. It happened the night before I got to the station. When you got
:57:39. > :57:45.with Mir, did you go through the ritual? Just the same, a couple of
:57:46. > :57:51.hours after docking. You are checking the seals so that nothing
:57:52. > :57:59.is leaking. You're equalising the pressure. You do not want an opening
:58:00. > :58:07.very fast of the cover. You would want to be able to open it. Is there
:58:08. > :58:21.any chance we can speculate on what is happening now? The cameras are
:58:22. > :58:30.out again. My best guess is they wanted Yuri to get some more data.
:58:31. > :58:36.It looks like maybe Scott Kelly is getting close. Scott thinks we are
:58:37. > :58:46.getting close. We will see. The flash gun is going off. Is that the
:58:47. > :58:50.sign of somebody? There they are. Yes!
:58:51. > :59:02.APPLAUSE Yes macro in the nick of time. That
:59:03. > :59:08.is Tim Kopra arriving. There is Tim Peake. He is on board the
:59:09. > :59:15.International Space Station. APPLAUSE
:59:16. > :59:33.Finally. This is a great moment, isn't it? Even Yuri is smiling. The
:59:34. > :59:44.biggest smile we have seen. I think we have sad Yuri. That is happy Yuri
:59:45. > :59:52.right now. The journey that we saw start at 11am. That is the reaction.
:59:53. > :00:00.That is wonderful. We have finally got the UK astronaut here. It shows
:00:01. > :00:08.just how hard it is. It is not a guarantee, not a simple thing. Huge,
:00:09. > :00:16.nation, technical and very personal. An incredible journey. It started at
:00:17. > :00:22.11:03am. Fast by standards we are used to but they kept us on the
:00:23. > :00:23.edge. They have done all of this after their launch date. A tough
:00:24. > :00:33.day. The procedure now there will be a
:00:34. > :00:38.safety briefing. They will turn a corner and all be heading down to
:00:39. > :00:43.the Russian end here in the service module and also have a briefing and
:00:44. > :00:54.a discussion about what to do if an emergency occurred. Space history.
:00:55. > :01:02.There is Tim Peake. Hello, Tim! There are historic figures like Yuri
:01:03. > :01:09.Gagarin. He seems in excellent form there. He looks great, wonderful to
:01:10. > :01:16.see. He is moving his head from side to side. That is a good site. This
:01:17. > :01:23.is his first time in zero gravity other than his training. He has gone
:01:24. > :01:28.from his time in eight broom cupboard to the space station. We
:01:29. > :01:33.hope we will capture the phone calls and we will not disappear before we
:01:34. > :01:37.hear him say his first words from the International Space Station.
:01:38. > :01:44.What is your feeling here? They look like they are about to talk. Scott
:01:45. > :01:49.is hurrying them along as the commander. He recognises it has been
:01:50. > :01:55.a long day for everybody. He wants to get his crew squared away. I
:01:56. > :02:00.think they are about to start the calls. We are going to stay on air
:02:01. > :02:08.to hear the calls. I don't know what is going to be next on BBC Two. It
:02:09. > :02:10.will be delayed. Stay with us. This is Houston, are you ready for the
:02:11. > :02:24.event? A new guy! Baikonur, this is Mission
:02:25. > :02:33.control Houston, please call for a voice check. Station, I am with your
:02:34. > :02:41.colleagues, family and friends in Baikonur. How would you hear me? We
:02:42. > :02:47.read you. You guys look great. We will start off with the Yuri
:02:48. > :02:52.Malenchenko contingent. Hi, it is so great to see you guys
:02:53. > :02:57.up there, I want to congratulate you with the most amazing launch ever.
:02:58. > :03:05.May you have a great successful mission and God bless you.
:03:06. > :03:13.That was you we's wife. -- Yuri's wife.
:03:14. > :03:17.Congratulations, Yuri, and all the rest of the crew. It was really
:03:18. > :03:26.beautiful to watch and have a really fantastic mission.
:03:27. > :03:34.Thank you. Yuri, a long journey starts with a small step, but you
:03:35. > :03:37.made a big step today, so congratulations to you, Yuri, and
:03:38. > :03:43.really well done to you and all the crew.
:03:44. > :03:50.That was the director of the space station for many years.
:03:51. > :03:57.Congratulations, that won, on a wonderful journey and docking. I
:03:58. > :04:05.hope the journey continues with much success. Here is my wife, Eleanor.
:04:06. > :04:10.Congratulations, Yuri. I hope you and the crew have a wonderful trip.
:04:11. > :04:16.Thank you. STUDIO: You said Yuri is a few words
:04:17. > :04:20.and he certainly is! Congratulations. We look forward to
:04:21. > :04:28.celebrating with you after your mission is completed. God bless you.
:04:29. > :04:33.STUDIO: That is Yuri's daughter. He is a man of three words, yes, thank
:04:34. > :04:41.you! He will want to rest after that.
:04:42. > :04:46.Tim, this is dawn. We had a great day to day but I think you had a
:04:47. > :04:50.better one. It was a beautiful launch. Thank you, we enjoyed the
:04:51. > :05:01.ride and we have been on station here for about three minutes now. It
:05:02. > :05:10.is very nice to be here! Hi, dad, it is Jacqueline. Hello,
:05:11. > :05:16.beautiful. It was a beautiful launch today. I love you and I hope you
:05:17. > :05:24.have an amazing next six months. STUDIO: You can hear the time lag.
:05:25. > :05:31.Thank you. You said they will get an opportunity for more private chats
:05:32. > :05:34.later? Guess, as soon as they can, they will get settled in their
:05:35. > :05:40.quarters and call their families individually.
:05:41. > :05:49.Thanks, sun, so glad you could watch it.
:05:50. > :05:55.They are making us wait for Tim. High, the Yuri, Tim and Tim. This is
:05:56. > :06:06.the director of EFA. Tim, you selected the window seat, what did
:06:07. > :06:12.you see? That is unfortunate! We still have
:06:13. > :06:18.audio. They are just getting his microphone ready, probably. We have
:06:19. > :06:23.a frozen picture. Right at the point that Tim Peake was going to speak!
:06:24. > :06:35.Seems like we have lost the audio as well. Tim Peake's family are still
:06:36. > :06:38.waiting to speak. Patiently. They are very relieved. The families did
:06:39. > :06:42.not use to be allowed at the launch site. They said goodbye to two weeks
:06:43. > :06:47.before the launch and that was it. It is really great that the families
:06:48. > :06:52.can be involved with them. I think it really helps. That is Rebecca,
:06:53. > :06:56.Tim Peake's wife in the scarf in the middle of the picture. She will be
:06:57. > :07:02.more frustrated than us. She has waited all this time. There tends to
:07:03. > :07:07.be communications blackouts. They switch satellites. You are racing
:07:08. > :07:13.around the world so fast that whatever satellite you are using,
:07:14. > :07:17.you have to log onto another one. There are dropouts all the time.
:07:18. > :07:21.When Helen went there were dropouts most of the time. Now there are
:07:22. > :07:27.still gaps where we do not have communication with the ground. It is
:07:28. > :07:35.frustrating for everybody. I hope you can hear me now. We have
:07:36. > :07:40.locked onto a new satellite. There is some reaction now. Tim Peake, you
:07:41. > :07:48.selected the window seat, what did you see?
:07:49. > :07:53.It was a beautiful launch and we launched straight into it and got on
:07:54. > :07:57.with the work but that first sunrise was absolutely spectacular and we
:07:58. > :08:08.also got the benefit of a moonrise as well which was a beautiful thing.
:08:09. > :08:12.High, Tim, this is David Parker from the UK space agency. Congratulations
:08:13. > :08:19.on a brilliant launch. I think the whole country has got behind you and
:08:20. > :08:23.is enjoying the mission so far. My question is, what would you like to
:08:24. > :08:31.say to all of the young people who watched the launch today? Hello,
:08:32. > :08:40.David, good to talk to you. I hope they had a good launch. I hope you
:08:41. > :08:48.enjoyed the show. Hello, Tim, it is Rebecca here. It
:08:49. > :08:59.was fantastic to watch that launched today. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
:09:00. > :09:06.There are quite a few parties going on the ground. Your launch has been
:09:07. > :09:25.celebrated by everybody down here. I'm glad you had a good night. Yes.
:09:26. > :09:32.We love you. Hello, Tim, it is mum. High, mum! Hello, Tim. I think you
:09:33. > :09:40.would call today expect that he lived day in the office. -- a
:09:41. > :09:47.spectacular day in the office. I think we had a great night in the
:09:48. > :09:54.office, that is the shore. Everybody sends their love and I hope you have
:09:55. > :10:06.a wonderful time. Bye for now. Thank you very much and love to everybody
:10:07. > :10:12.back home. Hi, it is dad. I wonder if your twin
:10:13. > :10:17.Tim enjoyed the little surprise you had for him on take-off. We both got
:10:18. > :10:18.each other there. There were too many surprises going on before
:10:19. > :10:41.take-off. Crew on the International Space
:10:42. > :10:46.Station, we will wrap it up. You have had a long day. You all look
:10:47. > :10:51.great. We look forward to your half-year on board the International
:10:52. > :11:03.Space Station. With that, I will turn us back to the crew at face
:11:04. > :11:09.macro. -- Baikonur. APPLAUSE
:11:10. > :11:13.Tim Peake and his first words from the International Space Station
:11:14. > :11:20.after an incredible day. An incredible day. Tim will be spending
:11:21. > :11:28.six months orbiting the earth. Many of you will be wondering what his
:11:29. > :11:32.thoughts are on how the International Space Station might
:11:33. > :11:39.affect him. I think the experience will change
:11:40. > :11:43.me, give me a different perception of planet Earth. To look at planet
:11:44. > :11:48.Earth from space is a remarkable thing. I think it is hard to know
:11:49. > :11:51.how you will change when you see that. Nevertheless, just orbiting
:11:52. > :11:59.planet Earth for six months will probably have quite a profound
:12:00. > :12:01.effect. I will just try and enjoy every moment of it, but just
:12:02. > :12:08.experiencing the launch and the re-entry and living and working in
:12:09. > :12:13.space will be a wonderful thing. Well, we have run late in honour of
:12:14. > :12:19.that. The story will continue on BBC News if you want to see more of
:12:20. > :12:25.Tim's incredible journey. I hope you enjoyed the show, we certainly did.
:12:26. > :12:29.Thanks, Chris, thanks, Helen. We will be back and hear more from Tim
:12:30. > :12:34.in the New Year. We will be running Stargazing Live for three nights in
:12:35. > :12:39.January. We will be chatting to Tim live from space and finding out what
:12:40. > :12:45.he will get up to on-board. And we will our wannabe astronaut John
:12:46. > :12:49.Bishop through the paces. We will also have some incredible images
:12:50. > :12:53.from Pluto and a rundown of some of the biggest things in the universe.
:12:54. > :12:59.For continuing coverage from the space station, switch over to our
:13:00. > :13:40.colleagues on BBC news, but from everybody here, goodbye! Goodbye!
:13:41. > :13:43.Treetop dining doesn't always go to plan.