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British astronaut first enters space on January 15, 2016

Today, Tim Peak is the second astronaut in the UK who has been in space. January 15, 2016, he will become the first British astronaut to go into outer space.

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Briton Tim Peak, along with NASA colleague Tim Kopra, will replace the voltage regulator, which failed in November 2015. A breakdown caused one of the station’s eight power lines to fail. Another task for astronauts will be laying power cables.

Scott Kelly will help astronauts to put on and take off their spacesuits. Before going into outer space, astronauts will breathe pure oxygen for two hours to clear the blood from nitrogen. Tim Peak and Tim Copra will spend about six hours in outer space, according to the European Space Agency .
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Army Pilot British astronaut Tim Peak, an astronaut of the European Space Agency, went to the International Space Station on December 15, 2015. He will spend at the station for seven months, the astronaut takes part in a study on the cultivation of food in space.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/371577/


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