British bloke goes into space... why all the fuss?

[Joey Shabadoo]

ISIS have space rockets now? Oh my!

 

[mr messy]

Without a space hat thingy.

Now that's just taking it too far...a tiny pinhole shall suffice

 

[captain nemo1701]

Certainly nothing new about anyone going into space or spending 6 months on the ISS, and this Tim bloke isn't the first Brit to go to space... so what's all the fuss about?

While I don't wish to detract from the educational value, going to the ISS is pretty routine. And in no way can it be compared to Apollo. Those guys went half a million miles to another body in our solar system. This mission is going to..er..just outside our atmosphere, like driving vertically from London to Edinburgh.

 

[classic33]

While I don't wish to detract from the educational value, going to the ISS is pretty routine. And in no way can it be compared to Apollo. Those guys went half a million miles to another body in our solar system. This mission is going to..er..just outside our atmosphere, like driving vertically from London to Edinburgh.

Try driving there then!

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Any via NASA requires US citizenship, giving up all others.

and he is to be using a USA amateur radio callsign to talk to UK schools

 

[screenman]

While I don't wish to detract from the educational value, going to the ISS is pretty routine. And in no way can it be compared to Apollo. Those guys went half a million miles to another body in our solar system. This mission is going to..er..just outside our atmosphere, like driving vertically from London to Edinburgh.

Where was that, about twice as far away as the moon.

 

[cisamcgu]

I think it is brilliant, but I also worry .. 100 years ago we flew bi-planes, 50 years ago we went into orbit, 40 years ago we walked on the moon, today we are back in orbit ... ... where has the desire gone ?

 

[vickster]

40 years ago we walked on the moon, today we are back in orbit ... ... where has the desire gone ?

Nah never happened

Has the desire gone or just the endless pots of cash wasted and willy waving by the USA and now no more USSR

I want to watch Masterchef so could the space types now please bugger off

 

[Profpointy]

Patrick Moore had a rather good boast that he'd met (one of?) the Wright brothers AND Neil Armstrong.

And whilst actual people haven't yet been further than the moon, even Mars is a bloody long way. Most of us, those who remember the moon landings at any rate have driven as far as the moon after all. But unmanned probes have soft landed on Titan, and flown past Pluto. These are awsome acheivements

 

[Piemaster]

While I don't wish to detract from the educational value, going to the ISS is pretty routine. And in no way can it be compared to Apollo. Those guys went half a million miles to another body in our solar system. This mission is going to..er..just outside our atmosphere, like driving vertically from London to Edinburgh.

The shuttle missions were just that too..routine. Until the Challenger disaster.

 

[snorri]

I want to watch Masterchef so could the space types now please bugger off

 

[classic33]

I think it is brilliant, but I also worry .. 100 years ago we flew bi-planes, 50 years ago we went into orbit, 40 years ago we walked on the moon, today we are back in orbit ... ... where has the desire gone ?

George Caley flew long before that.

 

[ianrauk]

It's such an amazing achievement. I get really excited about rocket launches and it's rubbed off on Ian Jnr (5yo). I recorded the show as he was in school and we watched it together this evening. He then said that he also watched it in school

 

[classic33]

The shuttle missions were just that too..routine. Until the Challenger disaster.

As were any manned space missions until Apollo 13, and later the ASTP.

 

[midlife]

George Caley flew long before that.

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Shaun