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Astronaut Tim Peake: 'Travelling at 25 times the speed of sound, your first view is mind-blowing'

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Don’t Stop Me Now, Coldplay’s A Sky Full of Stars and U2’s Beautiful Day.From launch, we were in space within eight minutes and 48 seconds – and then spent six hours rendezvousing with the space station, 250 miles up.

Soon after orbit, I looked out of the porthole and we were over the Sea of Japan. It was completely black and a beautiful, bright moon rose there and then – it was shimmering off the ocean and was absolutely stunning.The main picture here was taken up in the Cupola [the ISS’s viewing window].

You’re travelling at 25 times the speed of sound and can cross the Atlantic in 17 minutes, so your first view from it is mind-blowing.

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