Gary Nicholls

I really wanted to see what the stars looked like from the cupola. They didn't let them look AWAY from Earth though. "The first professional British astronaut [Tim Peake] said the most unexpected thing was "the blackness of space". "We always talk about seeing the view of planet Earth and how beautiful it is and you come to expect that. "But what people don't mention that much is when you look in the opposite direction and you see how dark space is. "It is just the blackest black and that was a real surprise to me."