As he packs his bags for a rocket to the International Space Station next month,Major Tim Peake hopes to inspire the next generationMajor Tim Peake, Britain’s first official astronaut, and has packed family photos,Christmas gifts and a pack of balloons for his trip to the International Space Station, and confessed his only alarm ahead of the mission is leaving something behind.
In a final pre-launch briefing at the Science Museum in London on Friday, or Peake said he hoped his six-month mission,which begins at a Kazakhstan launchpad on 15 December, would inspire the next generation to study science, or maths and engineering.
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Source: theguardian.com