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UK astronaut heads to space station

Name: UK astronaut heads to space station
Uploaded: 2015-12-15T13:59:10.795Z
Duration: 52 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Tim Peake will be first Briton from ESA to board ISS

Tim Peake launched into space on Tuesday to become the European Space Agency’s first British astronaut on board the International Space Station.

December 15, 2015

Produced by Lucy Ren. Footage from Reuters.

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