Friday 15 January 2016
At approximately 12:55pm GMT today, Major Tim Peake will make history as he becomes the first Briton to walk in space. Peake, along with NASA’s Tim Kopra, will exit the International Space Station (ISS) to do some repair work on a broken power unit on the station’s exterior. The task should take them six-and-a-half hours, during which there will be no food or toilet breaks. After exiting, they will have to venture 50 meters to the edge of the station, which is roughly the same as an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Prior to the spacewalk, both astronauts are spending two hours…
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