• Question: How long did it take you to build the spaceship that got Tim Peak into space?

    Asked by JoeCole101 to Andrea, Charlie 🚀, Col Op, Kirsty, Vinita on 17 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Andrea Boyd

      Andrea Boyd answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      People go to space on a Soyuz spacecraft (it’s literally the only way for humans to go to and from space) and it’s built by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos in Russia. I don’t know how long it takes to build – they launch every three months so my best guess is a few months.

    • Photo: Columbus Operations

      Columbus Operations answered on 19 Jun 2016:

      Hi JoeCole101,

      Andrea is on the money when she said every 3months for the Soyuz spacecraft that take people to the ISS. However Soyuz also build rockets for non-ISS government and commercial launches in Russia and French Guyana so the overall production must be higher for the rocket!

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