Image copyright PA The first British astronaut Tim Peak, located on the International Space Station is preparing to make a spacewalk, said NASA.
January 15 with the American Tim Kopra, he will go beyond the ISS to carry out repair work of the voltage regulator.
For the Americans, it will be the second spacewalk in less than three weeks. At ISS, he, too, is no stranger: her previous flight Copra committed in 2009.
And for the UK space flight Tim Peake – a truly historic event.
The military pilot in the retired Major General Tim Peak went into orbit on December 15 at the Russian spacecraft “Soyuz” and hold there for six months.
Six and a half hours
The astronauts in special suits to leave the station through American module to replace the control board that distributes the voltage supplied from the solar panels.
As a result of breakage shield in November last year out of action came one of the eight power units supplying the ISS electricity.
December 21, 2015, Tim Peak inside the station provides technical support spacewalk of their American counterparts – Copra and Commander Scott Kelly of the US unit. Then NASA astronauts out to fix the jammed so-called “mobile cart” for receiving of goods.
At this time, it will be one of those who will step outside the ISS.
It is expected that spacewalk will last six and a half hours.
Tim Tim Kopra Peak and know each other well. Together, they are ready to fly into orbit as part of the crew of the “Union”, which took them both, and Russians Yuri Malanchenko the ISS on Dec. 15 last year.
Peak became the first Briton who went into space under the auspices of European Space Agency. He is going to carry out a set of experiments and educational activities, which are designed to interest youth studying natural sciences.
The British in space
In 1991, a citizen of Britain’s Helen Sharman visited station “Peace”. Then her mission was made possible thanks to the cooperation between the Soviet Government and the British commercial companies.
Yet another British-born astronaut Piers Sellers flew into space as part of the American crews three times. On account of his six spacewalks, which together account for 41 hour and 10 minutes.
NASA astronaut Michael Foale, who was born in Lincolnshire, flew six times and became the first Briton to walk in space – in February 1995. It was a long time on the ISS and the space station “Mir”.
Another NASA astronaut, born in Britain, Nicholas Patrick flew into orbit on the space shuttle “Discovery” in 2006.
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