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Details of BIS 157
Reference: BIS 157
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
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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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