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united IN space Zap to meet Welcome to the ISS! It’s time to meet your fellow Country/Region: some of the astronauts from all over the world. astronauts Greeting/s: who have been to the First astronaut: ISS. European Space Agency Time in Space: (ESA) Country/Region: Europe Awesome fact: Greeting/s: Hallo (German) or Hello (English) First astronaut: Ulf Merbold (Germany), 28 November 1983 Time in Space: Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy) had the longest single flight by a woman at 199 days, 16 hours. Hallo! Privyet! Konnichiwa! Which Awesome fact: Tim Peake was the countries have sent first British astronaut to fly with ESA. astronauts to the ISS? Can you make a country card for one of them? PRINCIPIASPACEDIARY.ORG AND LUCY HAWKING © CURVED HOUSE KIDS LTD DIARY PRINCIPIA SPACE Breaking News! Not everyone gets to go to space, so it’s important that you share your experiences with people on Earth. I’m Cindy and I help people learn more about space and science here on Earth. Can you write a news report about Tim’s first day in space? Include a picture too! A B E Earth to C D Ebiil! Principia E H Fp / qefp / Mixkbq / Bxoqe? F I Fq’p / x / ybxrqfcri / G sfbt / colj / rm / ebob. Hi, I’m Berti, Mission H Director at the European I L Qfj / Mbxhb, Space Agency. It’s my job to J keep the contact between pfdkfkd / lcc! Earth and the ISS. I’ve just K N received this message! Can L you help me decode it? M P He__ __ __ ! N O __ s / t __ i __ / P __ a n __ __ / __ __ r __ __? P S __ __ ’ __ / __ / b __ __ __ __ __ f u __ / Q Can you see R v __ __ w / f __ __ __ / __ __ / __ __ __ __. a pattern emerge S as you fill in the __ __ m / __ __ __ k __ , letters? T U __ __ g __ __ __ g / o __ __ ! V Zap for W the answer! X A Y Z.

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Download Chapter Two Teaching Notes
Resources Required The European Space Agency (or ESA) has astronauts from lots of different countries. Tim Peake was the very Pen and pencils (including primary colours for the • first British astronaut to fly with them! The first astronaut flags) the ESA sent into space was the German Ulf Merbold Printed fact sheets for the other space agencies (see • who flew as part of a NASA mission on 28 November Running the Activity) 1983. The ESA also holds the record for the longest Encyclopedias or internet for students to find • single flight by a woman; the Italian astronaut Samantha countries’ flags Cristoforetti was in space for one-hundred and ninety- ACTIVITY 2.1 Background to this Activity nine days and sixteen hours in one go. The official UNITED IN SPACE languages of ESA are German (“Hallo”) and English Tim Peake undertook his Principia mission with two other From Chapter 2 of the Principia (Hello). Space Diary astronauts – NASA’s Tim Kopra and Russian commander http://principiaspacediary.org/ Yuri Malenchenko. Already on board the ISS were Place each of the following paragraphs in different activities/united-in-space Mission Commander Scott Kelly from the US; Russian spaces around the room. Invite the students to read each cosmonaut and fight engineer for the mission Mikhail of the entries, then fill out the country card for the space Kornienko; and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov. agency of their choice. The students will need to use LEARNING LEVEL encyclopedias, the internet or classroom displays to find The International Space Station is used by astronauts KS1, KS2, P1-5 the country’s flag and an awesome fact.
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