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Catalogue description Principia Website
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| Reference: | BIS 157 |
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| Title: | Principia Website |
| Description: |
This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Principia website. [Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive]. |
| Date: | From 2015 |
| Arrangement: |
Please see information at Divisional level. |
| Related material: |
For the UK Space Agency website, please see: BIS 30 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, 2009-2016 |
| Physical description: | archived website(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
Gathered from original website. |
| Accruals: | Future website versions may be anticipated. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
In May 2013, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that Major Timothy Peake, a British Army Air Corps test pilot from Chichester, West Sussex, would fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on board a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The six-month mission was launched on 15 December 2015 with Peake a member of the Expedition 46/47 international crew, alongside NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko. Peake became the first British ESA astronaut to undertake a long duration mission on the ISS. The mission name 'Principia' refers to Isaac Newton’s ground-breaking three-part text on physics, 'Naturalis Principia Mathematica' (Latin for 'Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy') describing the principal laws of motion and gravity on which all space travel depends. |
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