This extension activity supports Time for Launch - Activity 1.1 in Chapter One.
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Principia Space Diary
Activity 1.1
Learn about time and duration while completing a comic strip! The creative/visual elements in this activity, such as drawing, provide a way in to the complex topic of time, and challenge students to make links between analogue and digital time.

Support Materials
Multimedia Downloads
Solution: Time for Launch (175.84 KB jpg) ↓Links
- Richard Garriott on being an Astronaut
We asked Richard Garriott to share his experiences of going to space - World Water Day: what's space got to do with it?
- Stages of the Soyuz launch explained
- Clip of astronauts entering Soyuz spacecraft and blasting off
- Clip of a Soyuz spacecraft blasting off to the ISS
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Build Your Own Soyuz
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