Inside Baikonur, the space station that will send Major Tim Peake into space

A blue-clad engineer adjusted a valve, a needle spun on a dial, and the huge engine of a Soyuz rocket let out a gasp as if it was breathing. Fifty meters long, and packed with 300 tons of highly combustible oxygen-enriched fuel when loaded, there is nothing small about the rocket that will carry Major Tim Peake into space on Tuesday. But in the vast assembly hangars where Russian engineers were running their final checks, it seemed tiny – an impression only heightened by the delicacy with which the technicians run through their final tests. More

(Source: The Telegraph - Dec 14)