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Tim's 360潞 Photos

Get right to the heart of the action with an astronaut's view of training. Taken by British ESA astronaut Tim Peake while preparing for his Principia mission to the International Space Station.

The 360s work on desktop but are more fun on a smartphone or tablet. And, if you have Google Cardboard, click the 'eyeball' icon for a truly immersive experience.

(See Notes below for browser compatibility)

  • Tim Peake with crewmates Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra training in the Soyuz simulator

  • Poolside with Tim as he prepares for a day's training at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab

  • Home of the first man in space at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

  • Tim looks around replicas of the Russian sections of the International Space Station

  • Tim (seated right), Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra get hands-on with the Soyuz manual

  • Tim is a European astronaut, but trained in the Russian ISS replica too

  • Astronauts Tim Kopra and Tim Peake, about to be lowered into the spacewalk training pool

  • Tim Peake, Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra are helped out of their Sokul spacesuits

  • A sense of the scale of the International Space Station 鈥� these are just the Russian parts

  • The 大象传媒 Horizon team have followed Tim's astronaut training for over 18 months

  • The control room at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab as Tim trains for a spacewalk

  • A Soyuz rocket monument at Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

NOTES

Browser compatibility
All recent versions of Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Opera; Internet Explore 11 or higher on mobile and desktop devices

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Click the icon that appears to make the image compatible with Google Cardboard for an immersive VR experience

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