Principia Postflight News Conference Tomorrow 8:00 AM

Science & Technology / Space 

Date

Tue, Jun 21 2016 8:00 AM — Tue, Jun 21 2016 9:00 AM

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Principia Postflight News Conference of Tim Peake at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany 21 June 2016 - 13:00 – 14:00 CEST

  European Space Agency

Tim Peake after landing

ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and commander Yuri Malenchenko landed in the steppe of Kazakhstan on Saturday, 18 June in their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft. The trio spent 186 days on the International Space Station. The landing brings Tim Peake’s Principia mission to an end but the research continues. Tim is the eighth ESA astronaut to complete a long-duration mission in space. He is the third after Alexander Gerst and Andreas Mogensen to fly directly to ESA’s astronaut home base in Cologne, Germany, for medical checks and for researchers to collect more data on how Tim’s body and mind have adapted to living in space.

   European Space Agency

Tim Peake mission wrap up

Tim Peake has carried out a substantial amount of experimental work in microgravity, ran educational programmes from space, and played an important part in operational activities both onboard and outside the Station during his six-month stay onboard the International Space Station.