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This week astronaut Major Tim Peake will make history when he becomes the first Briton to serve a mission on the International Space Station. The 43-year-old will take off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan alongside Nasa astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko, the other two crew members manning the Principia mission. Weekend's Nuala McGovern spoke with Tim Peake on the phone from Kazakhstan where he had just walked out of one of his final training sessions.

( Photo: astronaut Major Tim Peake. Credit:KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images)