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Tim Peake heading to the ISS countdown....

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megletthesecond · 14/12/2015 22:12

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.

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Jeffjefftyjeff · 14/12/2015 22:19

🚀it is quite exciting🚀

Palomb · 14/12/2015 22:23

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 · 14/12/2015 22:24

Oh I wish him luck. So exciting!

RNBrie · 14/12/2015 22:25

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 · 14/12/2015 22:29

This is really exciting. I love watching the ISS.

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

OopsEEDaisyButtercup · 14/12/2015 22:31

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?!

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megletthesecond · 14/12/2015 22:33

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

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PigeonPie · 14/12/2015 22:44

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.

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megletthesecond · 15/12/2015 07:00

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

Not long to go now.

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SmileAndNod · 15/12/2015 07:08

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 · 15/12/2015 07:25

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 · 15/12/2015 07:32

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

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

Go Tim!

SuffolkNWhat · 15/12/2015 07:43

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

PigeonPie · 15/12/2015 07:45

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

AuntieStella · 15/12/2015 07:54

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 · 15/12/2015 09:50

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 Smile

PigeonPie · 15/12/2015 10:47

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

wavingfuriously · 15/12/2015 10:54

watching this on telly really exciting ..Smile

wavingfuriously · 15/12/2015 11:16

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

PigeonPie · 15/12/2015 12:21

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.

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megletthesecond · 15/12/2015 12:43

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

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DinoSnores · 15/12/2015 17:11

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

littlewoollypervert · 15/12/2015 17:17

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

littlewoollypervert · 15/12/2015 17:19

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

DinoSnores · 15/12/2015 17:30

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