Andreas Mogensen, former Imperial College London engineering pupil and present commander of the International Space Station (ISS), is talking live from the ISS to college students at New Scientist Live as we speak, taking their questions on his mission there and what life is like as an astronaut.
The livestream is beginning at 12.50 BST.
The ISS is the most important modular house station in low Earth orbit, staying about 400 kilometres above Earth’s floor, and it has been constantly crewed since November 2000.
European Space Agency astronaut Mogensen’s first spacewalk is deliberate for Thursday 12 October, when he and NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara will enterprise outdoors the ISS to put in a new digicam and put together an experiment for a future improve.
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