Stoke in space.

[withnallstoke]

Tim Peake unveils Stoke City flag in space at Christmas

By PeteSmith | Posted: December 25, 2015

@astro_timpeake OUT OF THIS WORLD: Astronaut Tim Peake is flying a Stoke flag in space.



Comments (1) ASTRONAUT Tim Peake has given Stoke City fans a Christmas treat by unveiling a club flag in space.
Stoke fan Andy Rushton launched a 'Let's Get Stoke in Space' campaign to persuade Peake to wave the club's colours at the International Space Station, where he arrived earlier in December ready for a six-month mission.
The flag went up separately as part of 7,300lb in cargo launched from the United States while Peake set off a few days later from Kazakhstan.
Now it has been unpacked and positioned on the ISS so it can be seen with a telescope back on Earth.


Peake has taken a photograph of the opposite view, with the Stoke flag sitting proudly in the black beyond, with Earth in the background.






















Gooooaaaaarrnnn STOKE.

[Looper]

^How come the flag is hanging down if there is no gravity.

Looks like an elaborate hoax

...and it looks more like a handkerchief or a napkin than a flag.

[withnallstoke]

and it looks more like a handkerchief or a napkin than a flag.

No need to be insulting just because i took the piss out of your high heels.

Stoke City FC flag to blast into space on supply capsule

• 3 December 2015
• From the section Stoke & Staffordshire

Image copyright Ken Kremer/NASA Image caption The capsule will deliver crew supplies, equipment and scientific experiments to the International Space Station A Stoke City FC flag is due to be blasted into orbit later, in a supply ship destined for the International Space Station.
Lifelong Potters fan Andrew Rushton persuaded British astronaut Tim Peake to pack the emblem.
The Orbital Resupply Services Flight is due to leave Florida at 17:55 local time (22:55 GMT).
Three astronauts, including Peake, are due to leave for the space station on 15 December from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Image caption The campaign to "get Stoke in space" ran for about five months The spacecraft is capable of delivering more than 7,700 lb (about 3,500 kg) of crew supplies, equipment and scientific experiments to the station.
More on this and other stories on Stoke and Staffordshire
Because of size and weight restrictions, the Stoke City flag will be a very small facsimile, which Mr Rushton said he was "disappointed" about, but added he was "over the moon" the astronaut had agreed to take a photograph of the pennant in space.
Mr Rushton campaigned via Twitter for five months and BBC Radio Stoke's Breakfast show team helped him get a flag. Mr Rushton received a message from Peake confirming the flag would soon be on its way to the International Space Station.

[Dapper]

^How come the flag is hanging down if there is no gravity.

Looks like an elaborate hoax

It is, here's the original,

[withnallstoke]

^ Meh.

[Dapper]

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[david44]

Potters ana been so hi since, Banksy and Matthews.

Of course many were high lane high when Motorhead visited the leading venue north of the equator

VALE PARK

Up the Vale, and is 5 town gesture of good wivnall,

UP yours TOO

As for Chelski they forgot it don't matter how many dago poofs yer russki geld buys if you keep letting em in

A soccer fan all my life my team

Yeltsin Jennings Bonetti Zoff Shilton Banks scmeichel Cech etc but certainly not adequate T Courtois he'd not play for Vale or C Rai Utd as my first choice.

Bert Trautmann there was a toughtKnut broke neck playing for Man City as a kraut just after WW2 2 and played on.

If you appreciate greatness check him and these
Hans Van Breukelen NL
Andoni Zubizarreta Bilbao
Jose Luis Chilavert crazy Paraguyan Ladislao Mazurkiewicz
Iker Casillas

Training tip

“El Divino” Ricardo Zamora is an all-time greatest goalkeeper before World War II era, was happened and being among the best footballer ever of his country, becoming the most iconic player of Spain in his era. Zamora, was noted for wearing a cloth cap and a white polo-neck jumper on the field, a look later copied by several of his contemporaries. He claimed it was to protect him from both the sun and his opponents. He was also noted for his bravery and incredibly made clean sheets in all five international friendly games in 1925. Zamora was also the subject of controversy throughout his career. He allegedly enjoyed drinking Cognac and smoking up to three packs of cigarettes a day, was arrested for his violent behavior in Olympic Game 1926. The award for goalkeeper who have gotten the fewest conceding goal in La Liga, The Ricardo Zamora trophy, is named in his honour. Additionally, He played for Catalan XI and helped them winning the Copa Princep De Asturies 3 times. IFFHS’s poll result shows him as World’s fifth greatest goalkeeper of the century.



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[Neverna]

Look a those windows! That's no space ship. It looks like an old Ford Anglia!

[withnallstoke]

Look a those windows!

Can't get the bloody windowcleaners to do a decent job anywhere these days.

[withnallstoke]

f course many were high lane high when Motorhead visited

Stood outside the Red Lion with the pint and listened.

[boloa]

[palexxxx]

[david44]

f course many were high lane high when Motorhead visited

Stood outside the Red Lion with the pint and listened.

If you'd rolled out of King William you'dve ended up my garden so it was always my LAST call

Dad lived in the Foaming Quart for a bit long gone behind old town hall .

Other raves, the Vaults P Office the George the graby leopard the gt eastern,even The Park if Vale on
Some fine bars From Longbridge Hayes to Chell I must have drained em all/, from roach end to consall forge my favorite for canalside knee tremblar the hollybush
The Titanic now as good ale and the Bulls Head far better than old haunts the Unity and the American ! D'you drop inn

Is the crown Etruria still standing we played there with banks bros aka unit 4+2 ?


Alas I raise a murkhaostone pedigrre as i av an owd woger

[boloa]

It is, here's the original

[Dapper]

^ obviously a fake

[lom]

'Let's Get Stoke in Space'

Good idea, the flag went up first to mark out where to place it.

[Looper]

British astronaut Tim Peake accidentally gets wrong number on Christmas call home from International Space Station

The first British astronaut on the International Space Station encountered a few problems phoning home for Christmas.



While the state of the art technology on the space station should make it fairly straightforward to phone home, former army pilot Tim Peake hit a couple of snags with his "this is Major Tim to ground control" routine.
When trying to phone his wife, Major Peake heard a woman answer so asked: "Hello, is that planet Earth?"

Unfortunately, he had dialled the wrong number and it was not his wife Rebecca.

External Link: Tim Peake tweets apology to call recipient
He then tweeted an apology to the woman he called by mistake to let her know the call was not a prank.

He did not have much luck trying to call his parents either - they were out, so he left a message on the answering machine.

Major Peake, 43, is on a six-month mission for the European Space Agency. He is only the second British citizen to travel to space and the first to work on the ISS.

He was among three-person crew, including Russian cosmonaut Yury Malenchenko and NASA's Tim Kopra, which took off from Kazakhstan in a Soyuz rocket earlier this month.

He has announced he will run the London Marathon from space in April.

British astronaut Tim Peake accidentally gets wrong number on Christmas call home from International Space Station - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[boloa]

obviously a fake

Nope

[Dapper]

[withnallstoke]

Very cruel crowd in tonight.

[Dapper]

You must be gargling the champers right now Wivvas.

[david44]

A Mr M'Accuse said

Stoke

was over the moon, and have lit such a rocket under the Vangelis' arse that men now awank in Tittensor will use wetwipes