If six months in orbit 230 miles from earth sounds like a challenge, take a look at the bizarre lengths astronaut Tim Peake has already gone to in his training.
The countdown to blast-off has included a week in an underground cave and 12 days on the bottom of the sea.
Major Peake, Britain’s first astronaut for 20 years, took stomach-churning ‘zero gravity’ flights and learned Russian to communicate on the International Space Station.
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The countdown to blast-off for Major Tim Peake has included a week in an underground cave and 12 days on the bottom of the sea He described his 'strange' 14-month training plan. It included a week in isolated caves in Sardinia, to prepare him for living with very limited privacy and equipmentAnd if that wasn’t enough, he yesterday said he may take didgeridoo lessons.
The former test pilot from Chichester, West Sussex, has no fears about launching into space from Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz rocket in November 2015 – because it’s much less dangerous than his old job.