Not wishing to be controversial and being the only one to have a differing view at all on this thread - I simply can't see what the fuss is about over Peake other than he's British?
There's been hundreds of astronaut's in space for getting on for FIFTY years now and Peake is just another one on that long list.
He didn't do anything much any difference to the rest of the others - he certainly didn't break any records or do any 'firsts' that could not have been done by anyone else given that job to do.
He's not even the first Brit in space! Helen Sharman did that TWENTYFIVE years ago!
He seems to be a perfectly likeable bloke and comes across well at the interviews he's done and I don't wish to knock him at all really - just that I can't fathom out what all the fuss is being made over him apart from as I've already said that he's British?
I bet his Russians and American colleagues who have been in space with him during his time up there doing more or less the same as he has done haven't been on their respective national telly every five minutes like Peake has - if at all!
I'm pleased he's made it back safely and he certainly had many personal quality's that most of us do not to have been chosen to go into space in the first place but quite frankly it has all been a jingoistic fuss and nothing more.
There's been hundreds of astronaut's in space for getting on for FIFTY years now and Peake is just another one on that long list.
He didn't do anything much any difference to the rest of the others - he certainly didn't break any records or do any 'firsts' that could not have been done by anyone else given that job to do.
He's not even the first Brit in space! Helen Sharman did that TWENTYFIVE years ago!
He seems to be a perfectly likeable bloke and comes across well at the interviews he's done and I don't wish to knock him at all really - just that I can't fathom out what all the fuss is being made over him apart from as I've already said that he's British?
I bet his Russians and American colleagues who have been in space with him during his time up there doing more or less the same as he has done haven't been on their respective national telly every five minutes like Peake has - if at all!
I'm pleased he's made it back safely and he certainly had many personal quality's that most of us do not to have been chosen to go into space in the first place but quite frankly it has all been a jingoistic fuss and nothing more.