The final preparations before Tim Peake's journey to the stars
In short: Watch as Tim Peake and his crew depart Star City, marking the beginning of a high-stakes mission to the International Space Station. This video captures the quiet moments of transition before the crew boards a plane for their launch site in Kazakhstan.
The video documents the departure of Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko from Star City, near Moscow. This transition occurs on 30 November 2015, as the crew prepares to travel to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Peake's mission, titled 'Principia' after Isaac Newton's seminal work, represents the eighth long-duration mission conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA) on the International Space Station. During his six months in orbit, Peake will conduct various European and international experiments alongside various educational activities.
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