this week. like this? that s it? yeah. yeah, that s it. pat your head. pat your head, rub your stomach. 0k. 1-9-8-7. ..tim s taking me to task. ..tom s tackling table football. 0h! ..and anyone for a dance? this is tim peake, only the uk s second astronaut. he spent six months aboard the iss in 2016, living, working and walking in space. coming out. 0k. he s one of only 628 humans to have left our planet. and in his latest book, he s written the story of some of the other 627. all of them are special, a rare breed. and i met tim at imperial college london s data observatory to talk about a few that mean something extra special to him. yes, so this is bruce mccandless. 1984, out of the space shuttle challenger. and it s an iconic photograph. it s the first untethered spacewalk. we do lots of spacewalks today. they re never without risk, but they have become more commonplace. but we re always tethered to something in case we fall off. but to go outside on a spacewalk with no te
and it cost hundreds of millions of pounds to set up formula one in vegas. but the first practice was cancelled afterjust 9 minutes when carlo s sainz hit a loose manhole cover. the second session was delayed and fan areas closed. let s hope the rest of the weekend is smoother. time now for 10 seconds of a car cat. benjy gets reported missing many times a day when people find him wandering round his local shop in south shields. but i reckon he isjust having a fun time seeing all the different sights of aldi car park. i mean, can you blame him? you re all caught up now. see you later. this is bbc news. we ll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. this week. like this? that s it? yeah. yeah, that s it. pat your head. pat your head, rub your stomach. 0k. 1-9-8-7. ..tim s taking me to task. ..tom s tackling table football. 0h! ..and anyone for a dance? this is tim peake, only the uk s second astronaut. he spent six months aboard the is
around out in space. you know, we actually need a small version of this, which is our last ditch attempt, if you like, of how to get back to the space station. so, in order to test it, hejust went, take the tethers off. yeah. ..put my money where my mouth is. absolutely. and go for it. for the upcoming artemis missions, nasa has pledged to put the first woman and the first person of colour onto the moon. most astronauts so far have been men, although there was at least one early attempt to address that imbalance. valentina tereshkova, this is 1963, the first woman in space, and this is fairly early on in the space programme. i mean, 61 was when yuri gagarin went as the first human. so, only two years later, we ve got the first woman in space. but actually, having kind of broken the mould and got a woman into space very soon in the programme, the soviets then didn t fly another woman for 20 years svetlana savitskaya. right now, we are. we re about a1% of the global astronau
work as a middle aged person was a decade ago. and it cost hundreds of millions of pounds to set up formula one in vegas. but the first practice was cancelled afterjust 9 minutes when carlo s sainz hit a loose manhole cover. the second session was delayed and fan areas closed. let s hope the rest of the weekend is smoother. time now for 10 seconds of a car cat. benjy gets reported missing many times a day when people find him wandering round his local shop in south shields. but i reckon he is just having a fun time seeing all the different sights of aldi car park. i mean, can you blame him? you re all caught up now. see you later. this is bbc news. we ll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour. how graphic should tv news be in showing images of violence from the middle east? welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. coming up is bbc news right to broadcast footage of people being shot and of dead bodies in israel and gaza or is such coverage distressing viewer
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