Live coverage of the first spacewalk by British ESA astronaut Tim Peake. He has stepped outside the International Space Station with fellow astronaut Tim Kopra to perform crucial repairs on the orbiting outpost’s electrical system.
Watch a step-by-step preview of the spacewalk.
Watch our pre-launch interview with Tim Peake
If you chance upon a bright ‘star’ crawling across the sky in an arc from west to east, an object that doesn’t flash or possess red and green running lights (which is an aircraft), then you can be fairly certain that you’re looking at the International Space Station (ISS). Find out when and where to see it from the British Isles and Western Europe this week.
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