• Question: What is your favourate part of being involved in the mission to get Tim to the space station?

    Asked by purplepanda to Alex, Andrew, Delma, Julia, Simon on 4 Dec 2015. This question was also asked by james t.
    • Photo: Alexander Finch

      Alexander Finch answered on 4 Dec 2015:

      I have only a distant connection with Tim’s mission. In my previous jobs, I was working on unmanned satellites, and the space medicine we’re studying here in Antarctica will be more for use on future long-duration missions, like a trip to Mars.

      But that doesn’t matter though, as we’re all working to advance humanity’s exploration and use of space, even if we’re not all in the astronaut corps!

    • Photo: Andrew Winnard

      Andrew Winnard answered on 4 Dec 2015:

      Being involved in human spaceflight is awesome because it pushes us to the limit of our technological and scientific knowledge. Only by challenging ourselves like this can we learn new things and make new inventions! Human spaceflight is all about expanding our knowledge of our enviornment, finding out what is out there and looking for opporuntity over the horizon.

      You can get invovled too – check out Tim’s mission website at https://principia.org.uk/ and click on “get involved”!

      Since you asked about human spaceflight! I made a video for you to explain what will happen during Tim’s launch this Tuesday so you can watch live and understand what is happening 🙂

    • Photo: Delma Childers

      Delma Childers answered on 5 Dec 2015:

      My favourite part of this mission so far is getting to chat about space and science with people like you! While my fellow Astro teammates and I pitch in directly or indirectly with Tim’s mission, chatting with students like you gives me hope that our work will carry on once we’ve all retired.

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