{"id":13940,"date":"2015-12-17T13:29:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T13:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=13940"},"modified":"2015-12-18T09:17:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T09:17:17","slug":"tim-peake-launches-to-the-iss-an-historic-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/ariss\/2015\/12\/17\/tim-peake-launches-to-the-iss-an-historic-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Peake launches to the ISS &#8211; an historic event!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The RSGB was delighted to be part of the launch events in London, Cardiff and Belfast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We were able to explain more about amateur radio to school pupils and the public, and to share in the excitement of this special day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13941\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13941\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13941\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2015\/12\/151215-RSGB-and-ARISS-stand-at-London-launch-event.png\" alt=\"The RSGB joined ARISS at the Science Museum in London\" width=\"230\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2015\/12\/151215-RSGB-and-ARISS-stand-at-London-launch-event.png 230w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2015\/12\/151215-RSGB-and-ARISS-stand-at-London-launch-event-150x93.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The RSGB joined ARISS at the Science Museum in London<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Tim will contact pupils by amateur radio from the ISS<\/h4>\n<p>The first four school contacts <a href=\"https:\/\/principia.org.uk\/news\/first-four-ariss-contacts-for-tim-peake-announced\">have been confirmed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re supporting those schools and their local clubs in their plans for an inspiring range of activity days leading up to the actual contacts.<\/p>\n<p>Check back here for regular updates.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13942\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13942\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13942\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2015\/12\/151215-Mike-Jones-at-Techniquest-with-Pedro-Duque.png\" alt=\"Youth Committee Chair, Mike 2E0MLJ, met Pedro Duque\u2014a Spanish astronaut and a veteran of two space missions\u2014at Techniquest in Cardiff\" width=\"230\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2015\/12\/151215-Mike-Jones-at-Techniquest-with-Pedro-Duque.png 230w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2015\/12\/151215-Mike-Jones-at-Techniquest-with-Pedro-Duque-150x107.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Youth Committee Chair, Mike 2E0MLJ, met Pedro Duque\u2014a Spanish astronaut and a veteran of two space missions\u2014at Techniquest in Cardiff<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13943\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13943\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13943\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2015\/12\/151215-At-w5-Jean-Francis-Cleeve-KC5WKG-1994-STS-66-1997-STS-84-1999-STS-103-IAN-EVANS-GI0AZB-RM8-Philip-Hosey-MI0MSO-v2.png\" alt=\"Ian, GI0AZB (left) and RM8 Philip, MI0MSO (middle) met French ESA astronaut Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Clervoy at the w5 in Belfast\" width=\"230\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2015\/12\/151215-At-w5-Jean-Francis-Cleeve-KC5WKG-1994-STS-66-1997-STS-84-1999-STS-103-IAN-EVANS-GI0AZB-RM8-Philip-Hosey-MI0MSO-v2.png 230w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2015\/12\/151215-At-w5-Jean-Francis-Cleeve-KC5WKG-1994-STS-66-1997-STS-84-1999-STS-103-IAN-EVANS-GI0AZB-RM8-Philip-Hosey-MI0MSO-v2-150x98.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian, GI0AZB (left) and RM8 Philip, MI0MSO (middle) met French ESA astronaut Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Clervoy at the w5 in Belfast<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB was delighted to be part of the launch events in London, Cardiff and Belfast We were able to explain more about amateur radio to school pupils and the public, and to share in the excitement of this special day. Tim will contact pupils by amateur radio from the ISS The first four school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ariss","category-principia-mission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}