Tim Peake Fires Up Astro Pi Computers On The International Space Station

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One of the Astro Pi computers on the ISS. ESA/NASA

Some British school children just got a pretty awesome bit of news from space: British astronaut Major Tim Peake has used some miniature computers designed by them on the International Space Station (ISS).

Peake activated two modified Raspberry Pi computers, nicknamed Astro Pi, this week. Their applications were designed by students in schools across the U.K.