Tim Peake heading to the ISS countdown....

[megletthesecond]

Almost time for lift off...

Weather permitting the ISS should be visible over the UK tomorrow evening too. We'll give him a wave from the garden.

[Jeffjefftyjeff]

🚀it is quite exciting🚀

[Palomb]

It's exciting isn't it! I watche half the Horizon heater and am going to watch the other half now.. (Fell asleep!)

I'd love to go up to the ISS but I dont think I'd be much use I'd just spend all the time gazing out of the window. I can't imagine that ever gets old.

[TheSkiingGardener]

Oh I wish him luck. So exciting!

[RNBrie]

I am really looking forward to tomorrow! I hope everything goes smoothly for them, I'm glad it's being covered properly in the media, it's so exciting. 🚀

[LineyReborn]

This is really exciting. I love watching the ISS.

It was DanDorkingFM, a MNer, who first got me interested years ago.

[OopsEEDaisyButtercup]

Got the timer on to record it all at home! I'll be at work but we have a TV in main reception so guess where I'll be spending my coffee break?!

[megletthesecond]

We've watched so many ISS videos on you tube, the dc's love the ones with water and the toilet .

[PigeonPie]

We've been really interested in it all since we listened to Chris Hadfield reading his book 'An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth' as an audio book; it's such a good book and even better as it's read by him. Well worth a listen / read - even the DSs who must have been 6 and 8 really enjoyed it.

[megletthesecond]

That sounds good pigeon. You can never have enough Commander Hadfield.

Not long to go now.

[SmileAndNod]

They're watching the lift off at school this morning. We always go out to watch the space station. The children never get tired of it. I don't think I'd get much work done up there, just spend my time looking at earth.

Will check out that audiobook pigeonpie, DS would love that

[PigeonPie]

We also gave it as a proper book to the DS's teachers at the end of term last year but I suspect they weren't very impressed!

[ScrappyMalloy]

We are really excited too. Tim is originally a local boy, and went to DS's secondary school, so the school is buzzing

DS has the same science teacher too, so it all feels very close to home.

Go Tim!

[SuffolkNWhat]

We're hoping to see it live in school as my class are part of the Orimary Project linked to it

[PigeonPie]

Scrappy - that's so exciting. Must make everyone feel so much more involved.

[AuntieStella]

A kind MNetter linked the NASA site yesterday.

If you want to watch on your phone, their coverage is here:

www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/schedule.html#.Vm_G3sSQGrW

(looks like BBC will be carrying a lot as well, but timings might slip)

[ScrappyMalloy]

Pigeon they have a film crew there this morning and everything! It's really fired them all up about science over the last few weeks

[PigeonPie]

I am supposed to be working (I work from home). Instead I'm watching the television!

[wavingfuriously]

watching this on telly really exciting ..

[wavingfuriously]

amazing + breathed sign of relief ...remember watching one from the past..

[PigeonPie]

Waving - that was in the back of my mind too. But I was really reassured when they said that even if the rocket fails, there's a way to get the crew safely down. Was also thinking about his wife and sons.

[megletthesecond]

Phew. Lift off went smoothly. I went round to peek at the office reception tv and was holding my breath for a minute.

[DinoSnores]

Watching the docking now. The crosshairs are aligned with the target!

[littlewoollypervert]

I'm on the Guardian website but the view is moving AWAY from the ISS? (in work so stuck with just my phone)

[littlewoollypervert]

Oh apparently it's in fly around mode to get in position

[DinoSnores]

They are having to do a manual docking. Not sure why the automatic docking didn't happen.